Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...probably aren't aware of it but for over a year now I've been carrying on a passionate single-handed crusade to have TIME restored to the University of Pennsylvania Library which discontinued its subscription at that time. A colleague of mine told me the reason TIME was not subscribed to any more by the U. of P. Library was because it was too popular with the students (your magazine is used quite extensively in several Wharton School courses...
...Even a child would know that the affair was not handled normally from its beginning in December. . . . You ask if I think the Stavisky case might involve only simple negligence? Messieurs, you cannot be naïve after 20 years in the Sûreté. . . . In the organization of the police, the most compromised employes are those enjoying the most favors...
...eight had surprisingly good voices. Young William Horne's was light but it had an engaging, personal quality that made the judges beam. One high note cracked. Mr. Neuer asked for lenience. The aspirants, he said, were nervous. "Sure!" shouted the kindly mastersingers, "we've been there ourselves...
...when it threatened to ruin the Metropolitan in 1910. He stood ready to build a new opera house for the Metropolitan to seat 4,500, had already bought the land when the Met's Old Guard balked him in 1928. Never a phrasemaker, he had a naïve but sincere conception of his calling as a patron: A rich man must look upon himself as a community investment which must yield ''dividends of service and other things of value to the community." Said he: "No business I have ever conducted has brought me dividends comparable...
...continued to drill a patient's tooth. Said he, "I've been buying tickets on everything for twelve years." Ralph Mazzarello, porter in Filene's Boston Store, won $37,500. Said his mother, "If Ralph spends the money for a trip to Italy that would be the finish. There wouldn't be any more money...