Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passed a bad night. I don't feel well, but I try to work. Things don't go well. ... I just slept a little here in my chair, but I am weak and they...
...Times had gone higher. When $80,000 was reached, Publisher Boni telephoned from Paris to Manhattan. He suggested to the Times that they were cutting each other's throats. Whereat the Times expressed great surprise because it had not been bidding at all. Off went Publisher Boni well content to let the Tiger whistle...
...Corp. he had reason to be pleased. For famed in Pittsburgh are the Joneses and the Laughlins, controlling the greatest "family" steel company. Hard-swearing, wearing his hat at all times to be ready for emergency mill calls, Mr. Girdler in turn pleased the Joneses and the Laughlins. So well did he please them that when last year they heard outside interests, represented by Cleveland's Cyrus Stephen Eaton, were seeking General Manager Girdler, they made him president of Jones & Laughlin...
...well known that many musicians in the U. S. are out of work because of the new sound films (TIME, May 27, Aug. 19). Interviewed last week, Joseph Nicholas Weber, the Federation's president, estimated the jobless at 10,000. His Federation will spend as much as $500,000 to warn the public that Culture, as well as the livelihood of musicians, is threatened. He insisted: "We are not trying to hinder the development of any industry...
...bishop's pawn, but deans and bishops go together. Where there is a bishop, there is a cathedral (in most cases); where a cathedral is, there is a dean. Since deans and bishops must see each other constantly to do ghostly and secular business together, it is well that they should dwell together in charity. Not always is this the case. Last winter Manhattan's Bishop William Thomas Manning, high-church authoritarian, fell out with Dean Howard Chandler Robbins, broad-church independent (TIME, Jan. 14). Said Dean Robbins: "There is a fundamental difference of opinion...