Word: vim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This time he got up to the ground floor, and safely inside. He landed a job as salesman for a new patent medicine called Vinol, sold it with such vim & vigor that at 25 he was able to organize Drug Merchants of America, a buying agency for retail druggists. The scheme burgeoned, flowered into United Drug, with Liggett as secretary, then president and general manager. When a bright employe coined the name Rexall for Liggett's patent medicines, his Boston factory was continually racked with growing pains. Though "Liggett's own deepest convictions were against" chain stores...
...Finest fruit of that co-operation now lay before the President, the vast Industrial Recovery Act. The President signed with a vim...
...York City's Jimmy Walker and Chicago's Big Bill Thompson, Democrat Long has developed a political technique in which he is too intelligent to believe himself. Impervious to insult, he knows the trick of playing politics in its rawest, crudest form and he plays it with a vim, dash and audacity that stagger men with public sensibilities...
Undaunted by falling heir to this exhibit in comparative architecture, Associate Professor Baxter, with a vim and vigor worthy of his native Granite state, has set about to give one and all a good time. And he does. All is well organized; a neat little circulars advises all members about identification cards, how to make complaints about the food, how much the four guest rooms cost, and how all-pervasive are the parietal rules, which the Faculty has been meditating without result for the last six months. The swimming pool, a relic of Gold Coast days, and Adams' pride...
With Unemployment now at a pitch where the President of the U. S. has had to appoint a special commissioner (Col. Arthur Woods) to work on it, with Democrats full of fresh vim and courage after their party's November victory, it was certain that Democrat Wagner's would figure early and large in the legislative maneuvering...