Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small investors. Yet potent and prosperous appeared, last summer, both Blue Ridge and Shenandoah. Their securities and the securities in their portfolios* were rising harmoniously together. Back of them were the magic names of Harrison Williams, Sidney Weinberg. Waddill Catchings. Nobody realized that these were almost the last two investment trust rabbits to be pulled out of the prosperity...
...Massachusetts State House in Boston, San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts; at a sanitarium in Clifton Springs, N. Y., whither he had gone after his right arm became paralyzed (1927); of a broken hip and pneumonia. Having taught himself to paint with his left hand, last spring he exhibited two pictures at the National Academy of Design (Manhattan...
...refused the invitation to the mountains; I corrected two hundred papers over the weekend, themes, grammar tests, and spelling. When I returned them to the morning class, 'Brick' chucked his into the wastebasket with a 'Gee, somebody spilled the red ink!' How to make them care! . . . Miss Skelton teaches chemistry; she is a faithful worker for the Y. W. C. A. Mr. Mince tips his hat to her every morning; I've seen her flush at his audacity. Sometime I'm going to lock them in the Study Hall and compromise them...
...inquire into the double murder of his own wife and her paramour. For a while suspicion falls on Mr. Farnum's daughter (by an earlier marriage), but this pretty thing is no more a murderess than she seems. When the case has been solved, you are left with two striking thoughts: 1) A convenient and unusual thing to have behind the false wall of a private vault is the boudoir of your mistress; 2) very mysterious shooting may be accomplished by planning to have the bullets, instead of striking directly, bounce off some such household object as a chandelier...
...International Chamber of Commerce, pointed the path to everlasting peace. Said he: "If the leaders of the great industries which own, control, transport, refine and fabricate the 'key commodities' would not sell them to any actual or prospective belligerent, politicians would hesitate before precipitating wars. . . . There are two or three dozen men in the world today who could meet and form a gentleman's agreement." Some of the men and commodities he then mentioned...