Word: unger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attracted attention. It begins life with a management contract entered into with Samuel Ungerleider & Co., which provides that the brokerage house will receive no compensation except standard commissions unless the investment trust has earned in excess of 8% on its capital. When more than 8% has been earned, Samuel Unger leider & Co. will receive 20% of net profits, but only if the payment of such 20% does not reduce the corporation's profit below the 8% figure. Furthermore, Mr. Unger leider himself is the only member of Samuel Ungerleider & Co. who is on the board of Ungerleider Financial Corp...
...Berkeley Springs, W. Va., one Winter Unger butchered a hog; found two hearts, one normal in size, the other having attained the magnitude of a hen's heart...
...actresses than to vibrate in the role of a celebrated actress, perfumed with a past. Nothing is more likely to bark the temperamental shins. Actresses' lives are admittedly artificial. To paint them up additionally with wire-strung acting is to paint the lily. So, when Doris Keane, in Gladys Unger's play, essayed a role faintly redolent of Bernhardt, she invited the lightning...
...superhuman" difficulties of the score. The great concert hall in Vienna was packed to overflowing; tears came to the performers' eyes as the music started; the performance was frequently interrupted by thunders of the applause. But Beethoven himself heard nothing. He was 'deaf. It was not until his friend Unger wheeled him around that he saw the enthusiasm of the audience...