Word: winter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Augustus Stone lives during the winter on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan; during the summer at Locust Valley, L. I. He is a tall, spare man with hair that has turned almost white except for a black border along the neck. When he speaks of the company's activities, he invariably says, "Mr. Webster and I" or "Stone & Webster," never uses the first person pronoun alone. He likes yachting and tennis, but his chief avocation is breeding horses on his stock farms in Virginia and New Hampshire...
...whole solemn rigmarole of tariff-making was started over again, as if action by the House had never been taken. Witnesses began marching forward to repeat to the Senators the identical arguments for special favors they had made last winter before the House Ways & Means Com- mittee. The same disputed items-cattle, meat, hides, flaxseed, fresh vegetables, dairy products, sugar, shoes, cement, shingles-were the items for discussion...
...adjourned, emptied Washington, gave white invitees a good excuse to decline. In the crowd of 3,000 only a dozen white faces appeared, of which only one, that of Illinois Representative Richard Yates, belonged to a House colleague. Congressman De Priest announced that he would give another musicale next winter to test the sincerity of his Republican friendships on the race issue...
...fraternal quarrel arose from Filene expansion plans. Having last winter acquired Boston's R. H. White Co. (TIME, Dec. 10), the Filene management next discussed merger arrangements with Abraham & Straus, Inc., of Brooklyn and with F. & R. Lazarus & Co., of Columbus, Ohio. Feeling that the proposed consolidation would submerge individual prominence and kudos, Brother Edward Filene secured a temporary injunction prohibiting transfer of Filene stock to the holding company which was being planned to operate the three stores. He maintained that he had been disregarded in the merger plans, that no merger should be permitted without his having...
...interim. Fame had come to Floyd Dell. He had written some novels that sold [Moon Calf, The Briary Bush, This Mad Ideal]. Lately he biographed Upton Sinclair, the California liberty-shouter. The past winter the innocuous father farce Little Accident, based on his book The Unmarried Father, has been a money-getter on Broadway...