Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they were in 1833. Next day, flanked by an aide-de-campand a secretary who looked like a tar-brushed Groucho Marx, the Sultan held a press conference. Overwhelmingly discreet, his reply to almost every question-including inquiries as to why he had stopped playing tennis and what he thought of U. S. women-was "I can't answer that...
...platform is that of Coolidge." Actually it was the typical voice of the old-line Democrat, the Democrat who would like, but does not dare, to say the same things on the Senate floor. For the Baruch testimony was by no means a one-way damnation. Asked if he thought business had done its share, the white-haired old financier replied: "Business has not cleaned up its own stable, it has not met the Government people in the fullest spirit of co-operation." Eloquently he urged modification-but not repeal-of the undistributed profits and capital gains taxes, and declared...
...from different angles and are equally uncompromising. Because Harcourt Morgan agrees with David Lilienthal, practical result has been a constant 2-to-1 collision on the Board, which has led Chairman Morgan to carry his fight out of the boardroom and onto the lecture platform. Last week, he thought he had enough ammunition to carry the TVA Schism to Congress...
...another drink. A couple of mugs came in in the meanwhile, but if they hadn't had tickets they would have told us. Then they took some pictures of the cops in tuxes and asked where their partners were. They were from "Life" going to a party. We thought that was pretty funny and passed the old bottle around again...
...gadgets in this car, must be complicated to handle. Look out! A car in front of them had stopped abruptly. Instinctively he pressed his feet hard on the floorboards and to his and Mr. Yordan's surprise, the Pontiac jerked to a stop. "Funny," mused Mr. Yordan, "I thought I stepped on the gas to go around him." Then he laughed and pointed to the Vagabond's hoofs on the floorboards. "Dual controls," he said softly. "Don't freeze on them again." The Vagabond looked down, and sure enough, sprouting 'neath his ten-and-a-halves was a clutch...