Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Butler favoring Mr. Coolidge in the matter of silence. 'Have a cigar' serves in place of conversation. 'I collected,' said a man who was in there the other day, 'three cigars in three minutes and they were all Corona Coronas.' The only thing new about all this is the quality of the cigars. . . . Mr. Butler is a shrewd, hard-headed man. You feel that the Corona Coronas are not an accident. Like Alexander Hamilton, he can touch the rock of political resources and abundant streams of revenue will burst forth...
...came in here, and after sitting where you are for the longest time, he said, out of a clear sky: 'Do you know, I've never really grown up? It's a hard thing for me to play this game. In politics, one must meet people, and that's not easy...
During the War the Reich had concentrated its industry upon one thing- the making of munitions. At the end of the War, German factories were so converted that they could make little else but munitions. Germany was, however, otherwise ruined; she had no raw materials, no food; her railways were crippled, her population restive...
Moralists have interpreted the Haskell episode two ways. One school of critics compares him to former Westerners who have "gone into the Street" to trim it, and found that the Wall Street professionals knew a thing or two themselves. The other school writes heart-interest articles about Mr. Haskell's childhood days at his mother's knee, and tearfully declares: "Wall Street...
Years ago Steiglitz saw the possibilities of photography as an artistic medium and set out to make a photograph a personal thing that should be adapted to different types-not a stiff, hard picture, but a soft, delicate thing, properly composed and balanced-with beauty of line and grace of movement, as in a fine painting...