Word: trice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banking houses. The extra $1 did not actually go to the investment bankers. But in the open market people scrambled to buy investment trust stocks for a price which was twice the value of the assets behind them. Assumption was that any banker worth the name could, in a trice, make at least 100% on money entrusted to his care. When it was belatedly discovered that banker-managed investment trusts could lose money just as fast as any individual investor, a terrific public revulsion occurred. One result was the quick growth in the first years of Depression...
...gang of onetime Long bodyguards leaped to the attack. In the District Attorney's office one of them cornered Associated Press Photographer Leon Trice, who was once knocked unconscious on Huey Long's command, smashed his camera, was commencing to smash him when a little, old U. S. marshal drove him off. In a corridor Colonel Shushan & friends met the other offenders...
...H.A.A. had no announcer for the meet. Every solution, from Joe Humphries to Cliff Jackson, was offered but none seemed to fit. Finally in desperation, Carroll Getchell solved the matter in a trice. Mrs. McCallum in the Employment Office was called and instructed to send over three or four students with harsh powerful voices. Latest advices do not indicate whether or not she had found qualified applicants but when they finally do appear, the Stadium will be treated to a hog-calling contest. Led by Mr. Getchell, the trio will troup down to Soldiers Field and howl till the colonnades...
...Suffice it to say that there is one called "Under the Bed" in which that rather impolite article of furniture plays a prominent role. A hatrack in one corner, Belladonna enthroned in the other, a succession of male intruders, a bawdy denouement--and the lights fade mercifully. In a trice the stage is re-illuminated to reveal what is programmatically termed the Beauty Chorus industriously kicking away. And here we have an amusing spectacle, for it is quite palpable even to a jaundiced eye that many of these charmers have not been long on the boards. Some kick this...
Late one afternoon, Chesley W. Jurney, a Texan who, after a generation of service as secretary to Democratic Senators and Representatives, was made Sergeant at Arms of the Senate last year, dropped his other duties and sallied forth from the Senate accompanied by J. Mark Trice, Deputy Sergeant at Arms and official Storekeeper. Sergeant Jurney wore grey striped trousers, a cutaway, a black 10-gal. hat, a heavy overcoat with a red handkerchief hanging out of its pocket. He carried a document signed by Vice President Garner directing him to "take into custody the body of the said William...