Word: throgmorton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exchange, since the boom of seven years ago, has been as quiet as an untenanted playhouse. The rayon announcement pierced the gloomy hush like a spotlight lighting its stage for the premiere of an exciting play. The scene on the stage was an alley in the City of London, Throgmorton Street. Hustling onto this stage from every entrance came a mob of stockbrokers, those frantic and mysterious vaudevillians, shouting the abandoned gibberish of their lines...
...rayon announcement was made after the end of the stock market day in London; the next morning, before the Exchange opened (the London outdoor curb market keeps the hours it pleases), the curb brokers on Throgmorton Street, unshaven and madly perturbed, bid the shares up from a little above ?7 to well above ?9. When the clock in Capel Court, a few blocks away from Throgmorton Street over the low City roofs, struck its nine slow bells, the sun slanted a bright beam into Throgmorton Street and the official Exchange opened. Here, the bidding corrected the excesses that the curb...
...York, the effect of the Courtaulds melon was less extravagant. On the Curb Exchange, Courtaulds rose from 38½ to 42½; the next day was a U. S. holiday so that Manhattan brokers could sit and watch the play that was going on in Throgmorton Street. They whispered their applause over whiskey and soda; then, on the next morning, they took their profits from the rise...
...them. Told by a realist, the emphasis would have been laid upon the sordid details, upon the tragedy of starved lives and the futility of effort; told by Mr. Thurston all that is sordid is lost behind the glory of living and the joy that lies therein. Mary Throgmorton, the heroine, is a woman of twenty-seven or eight who has lived all her life a spinster with her spinster sisters, dominated by the memory of the puritanic virtue of her dead mother. Suddenly she comes to the realization that she has failed to live and that she has failed...
...women would be as Mary Througmorton if they dared" he has written. Here the moralists will say: "But what will happen to the family? Our children must by brought up properly. This is an outrageous doctrine." Yet one cannot help feeling that if all women dared as Mary Throgmorton dared, that if all had the courage she had, then the world need not worry as to the future of its children or its morals or its virtuous modesty. Mr. Thurston advocates no universal theor of free love--live, yes, and live fully, but to live one must be big enough...