Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took just two hours for the truth to leak out. Some one simply had to tell that Mrs. George Higgins Moses (nee Florence Abby Gordon), the lively, pince-nezzed wife of the bellicose Senator from New Hampshire, had been chosen to head the luncheon club. "Mr. Moses is President pro tern, of the Senate, you see, so that made it most appropriate . . .," etc. etc. Mrs. Gann was elected a Senate Lady only on a nonvoting, honorary basis...
...Pierpont Morgan: "I am here all alone. All the others have gone to the Ritz. But there is really nothing I can tell you, for we have not yet met with our associates on the experts committee. However, the time may come when we shall need your help, and we shall certainly...
Refusal of Loans. It is therefore very debatable whether any Federal Reserve bank would or could refuse a loan to a member in good standing. Says W. Randolph Burgess, assistant Federal Reserve agent in New York writing of the Reserve System in 1927*: "A Reserve bank cannot tell from the nature of its loans what its money will be used for. . . . It is thus impossible for a Reserve bank to dictate how its credit shall be put to employment. . . . The specific use of credit is the business of the individual member and nonmember bank. . . . What the Reserve banks do primarily...
Defense. Sir Joseph volleyed in return. He defined an expert as "a man who knows pictures and can tell a copy from an original." Of the Lardoux painting he said: "The neck is a clumsy cylinder of flesh . . . there are unnatural plates of flesh . . . faulty construction, faulty anatomy." He pointed to "poor" shadows, an off-perspective eye, awkward drawing. He defined technique as the "handwriting" of an artist whereby a "friend" can always recognize his work. Leonardo, he felt, could never have been a botchy anatomist, nor did the picture reveal his technique...
...Yorker Times Company and by wireless right back to the correspondent collect. Copyright by The New Yorker Times Company, as if anybody cared.-On board the Naphtha Launch City of Over Ten Thousand, in sight of Staten Island, Jan. 10. (Via Ferryboat Irma. Same date) . . . I wish I could tell you something of the spirit that prevails on board. No sacrifice is too great for the boys to make, and they do it with a grin a mile long on their faces, too. Well, perhaps not quite a mile, but an awfully long grin, anyway. Just to show you what...