Word: thithering
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...today the Vagabond cannot dawdle. At twelve he has a date with Harvard Hall, Room 6, and thither he god to hear Professor Langer on "Italy and the Revolution of 1820." He never misses a chance to hear the Great Young Man of the Department of History. Down in front, pencil in hand, sits the Vagabond as Mr. Langer mounts the platform to begin his lecture in the grating singsong voice that that startles you at first--and then picks you up and carries you along on a flood of fact, anecdote, opinion; now amusing, now perplexing, but continually...
...feeling of warmth; the word 'bask' most fitly describes my condition: I was basking in the cold. What had taken place, I suppose, was that my central nervous system had given up the fight, that the vasoconstriction had passed from my skin, and that the blood returning thither gave that sensation of warmth which one experiences when one goes out of a cold-storage room into the ordinary...
...corporation statements but he is generally Maurice on social occasions) lives on Sheridan Road. Every morning his Duesenberg calls for him and after stopping to pick up Brother Nathan, who lives nearby, they drive to their luxuriously paneled, air-cooled offices in the Goldblatt warehouse, on lower Lincoln Avenue. Thither from their slightly less pretentious bachelors' apartment come younger Brothers Louis and Joseph in a Lincoln. The Goldblatt family is scrupulously graded by seniority. Maurice and Nathan as "the partners" draw top salaries of $25,000 each, but Maurice, as senior by a year, long held 29,271 shares...
...Rosenwald, Chicago's great mail order magnate, sent his own son, quiet, hardworking, philanthropic Lessing Julius Rosenwald. The great Julius died, and four years ago Son Lessing became board chairman of the firm. Even then he did not return to Chicago. Once a week or oftener he taxis thither by air to confer with Sears' President Robert E. Wood, but his home is in Philadelphia and most of his work is done in his office in the tower of Sears Roebuck's great $8,000,000 store far out on broad Roosevelt Boulevard...
...Soong, in addition to being General Manager of the China Development Finance Corp., which looms as a nation-wide enterprise under Generalissimo Chiang's powerful protection, is Managing Director of the great Manufacturers Bank of China, one of whose most important branches is in teeming Canton. Thither T. L. Soong arranged to go last week as "Financial Commissioner" with a great retinue of Chinese bankers, including directors of the country's three government banks...