Word: trustingness
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Dream of Bagatelle. The World Wide Wicket Company has become the Tourniquet Transcontinental Trusting Company, in order to avoid a shabby French tendency to say Vorld Vide Vicket Company. When its president, J. B. Biggley, tells his florid mistress that few people know it but he is an extremely emotional...
Whimpering Puppies. In The Golden Fruits, the delivery of a critical opinion can be an appeal for love-or an attempt at assassination. A fashionable author, who has been unwise enough to admit he does not like the book, is forced to cling to a dowdy female guest for support...
To prevent his own tiu lien (loss of face), he told his trusting customers that he had known of the Hong Kong failure and had withdrawn their funds in time. Then he set up a phony account in his Chinatown bank, juggled his books, which were kept in Chinese characters...
In his book, he is now able to describe the times, usually after some shattering public event, when the President, trusting Sidey's confidence, would talk alone with him at day's end. Under the ground rules, the substance of the President's candid feelings about men...
The TIME cover article [July 19] on Conrad Hilton almost catches the multiple paradox of a financial wizard who thinks and acts like a poet. To many of us who have come to know and love Mr. Hilton, his "vanity" is the terrifying simplicity of the eternal boy who never...