Word: thread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, the Bank of England, London's famed "Old Lady of Thread-needle Street," has been a forgotten woman. She has had no control over Britain's easy-money financial policy, has been merely the government handmaiden forced to keep the policy in operation. But last week, as the Conservative government announced its new financial measures (see FOREIGN NEWS), the Old Lady came back to power with a youthful bounce. She announced, with a nod of approval from Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard Butler, that she would again exercise control over Britain's money supply...
...Kelly's improvements on the comic strip routine is to run two stories in each strip. While the characters are following one in Kelly's own brand of swamp talk, they act out another. The first provides the thread of a series from strip to strip, and the second gives a complete tale all in one strip...
...priest; it was all very quickly and formally done, while someone at a children's service muttered in another chapel. Then we shook hands and I went off to a salmon tea." Even so, he couldn't help feeling that "I had taken up the thread of life from very far back, from so far back as innocence...
Unhappily, the cheery peace of this literary sampler is broken by a scarlet thread that runs wild through it all. William Cowper was a madman. He spent every moment of his last 25 years under the delusion that God hated him personally. Worse yet, Cowper's God was irrevocably determined to betray him at every turn in this life, and to torture him eternally in the next. Under this ghastly sentence, Cowper wretchedly took up, as he said, "the arduous task of being merry by force." He found temporary oblivion in lighthearted verse and in thousands of eloquent, cheerful...
...figure commonly bandied about is $200 million. Actually, no one will know the real value of Hearst's estate until his executors have made an appraisal for purposes of federal inheritance taxes. To make it, they will first have to thread their way through his maze of personal holdings (ranches, mines, oil wells, real estate, art treasures) and interlocking corporations, discover how much has been encumbered by debt, how much previously sold...