Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This singularly lovely woman seldom does or says the expected thing. A potent U. S. tycoon (in Rumania about a loan) once complimented H. R. H. upon her beautiful topaze eyes. "Thank you," she said, "I am glad you like them. They are very little use to me."* Courteous but disconcerting, this reply is wholly typical. In vain last week Nicholas, Carol, Marie and His Holiness?the whole Rumanian pack?argued with her and pleaded. She would agree to nothing...
...held the title of President & Provost. Last week the university again evoked the title of President, conferred it upon Thomas Sovereign Gates, class of 1893, chairman of the Board of Trustees, Morgan partner, Drexel partner, board chairman of Baldwin Locomotive Works, Standard Steel Works, Midvale Co. From now on Tycoon Gates will be in charge of Pennsylvania's worldly goods. Provost Penniman will continue to direct the institution's scholastic affairs...
...also last week Col. Procter, No. 1 Tycoon of Cincinnati, was planning to go to Baltimore...
...Soap. Indicative of civilization is use of soap, which ranks among the first of mass-distributed products. But although it is known that early civilizations were soap users, their soap tycoons are lost to memory. In present times the great and only soap tycoon was the late Lord Leverhulme (William Hesketh Lever, 1851-1925) who while he was developing Lever Bros. (Sunlight, Lux, Lifebuoy) also developed the Belgian Congo. Art lover, collector, philanthropist, Lord Leverhulme to the day of his death maintained that his was the largest soap company in the world. Today Procter & Gamble dispute the claim, which...
Hero Chester Tattersall, unremarkable employe of a Manhattan telephone company suddenly finds himself rich through the demise of Uncle Marmaduke, surveying instrument tycoon. His first action is to take a "gyp" taxi (one charging more than the minimum fare) for a long ride. Then he rents an oversized apartment and proceeds to enjoy his life. The record of his adventures makes lively if not edifying reading, contains many a pungently satirical comment on U. S. urban and suburban life. Sometimes Authors Perelman and Reynolds call a spade by its trade name. Says a Manhattan newspaperman, complaining as is the custom...