Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...risen to treasurer. In that year, Bankers Kidder, Peabody & Co. raised about $20 million to make Cohn-Hall-Marx the base of a textile pyramid integrating many different businesses in the cotton-rayon industry. The new giant was United Merchants & Manufacturers Inc. and Jake Schwab went in as treasurer. He stepped into the president's shoes...
Night & Day. Roberts took the Tarkington advice and has been living and writing by it ever since. In three months he traveled 3,000 miles, for the Satevepost, wrote four articles, went through 73 historical source books and wrote the first 60,000 words of his first novel "on trains, in railway stations, in hotel rooms, and occasionally worked all night." With a contract from Publisher Russell Doubleday in his pocket, he went to Italy to write, hung a schedule on the wall beside his bed: "Write a chapter every 4 days; write 1⅓⅓pages (1,500 words...
Tarkington drove him on, read his manuscripts (Roberts read them aloud to him when Tarkington's eyes went bad), made improvements and changes which Roberts accepted gratefully. "On some evenings he'd stop me at the end of almost every sentence, and we'd examine that sentence and push it around and rephrase it, clearing it up and sharpening it and smoothing it: adding a little to it ... [I] suggested that if he really thought the book had merit, he let me put his name on the title page with mine and take half the royalties...
...France, with knock-wells), and even if they did they could not afford them at Paris' better saloons. But they watched with amusement as 18 of the capital's top bartenders gathered last week for a cocktail-mixing contest in Paris' Hotel Continental. As the competition went on the proceedings got somewhat out of hand, and befuddled professional interest became intense when one of the contestants tried mixing his ingredients directly in the consumer...
...Donelan went ten innings Wednesday, April 13, against MIT in a 2 to 2 tie. He gave up five hits and three walks, and struck out ten. In between pitching assignments he plays left field...