Word: sweetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Securities and Exchange Commission, which has long worried over the way speculative Canadian stock issues pour into U.S. markets despite SEC regulations, last week got what it thought was a perfect example of how it is done. The case involved Great Sweet Grass Oils Ltd. and Kroy Oils Ltd., sister Canadian companies whose stock was recently suspended on the American Stock Exchange because the oil and asset claims looked suspicious (TIME, Nov. 5). But as SEC poked deeper in a hearing last week, it uncovered a series of transactions that seemed to duck around U.S. regulations and bring windfall profits...
...serve elderberry wine (to one gallon of wine, add one tsp. arsenic, one-half tsp. strychnine, and just a pinch of cyanide), and give each of their gentlemen a full burial in the rites of his religion. "Murder? Certainly not! It's one of our charities." And, in their sweet way, they have a point...
...Bozzy's" solemn efforts to fill this tall order make scandalously funny reading. He was already the father of a bastard son (who died in infancy), and now a second child was on the way as a result of his "licentious passion" for one Mrs. Dodds (a "sweet little mistress . . . admirably formed for amorous dalliance" -but "she debases my dignity" and "costs me a great deal of money...
...father with an estate of ?1,000 a year and above ?10,000 in ready money. Upon my honour, I never was so much in love." When Bozzy set off to Ireland to make a formal bid for the nymph, he took with him his favorite cousin, Margaret Montgomerie. Sweet Peggy acted as his counselor-and kibitzed so cutely that Bozzy forgot the object of his journey and proposed to Peggy instead. Their marriage contract bore the stern signature "Sam. Johnson. Witness...
...Hello, sweet. Might I take you to the Yale thing tomorrow afternoon, with perhaps a cocktail and a show afterwards...