Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their friendship often depending on whether they were willing and able to lend him money. An egoist through and through, he hated men who disagreed with him, and accepted those who flattered him. Nothing outside his own life, his own problems, interested him--the music of others was not worth listening...
...Manhattan's Onyx Club, where swarthy, honey-voiced Maxine Sullivan had been singing the song for months, Loch Lomond had already been swung to a fare-ye-well, and nobody had paid much attention. But Columbia press-agents worked the Detroit incident for all it was worth, delved into musicological tomes, emerged with the pronouncement: "Bach made fancy arrangements of hymn tunes of Luther. . . . Now people make a fuss when Stokowski makes arrangements of tunes by Bach...
Investment bankers generally refuse to underwrite small security issues for the plain reason that the bankers cannot pay the "fixed charges" and still make a worth while commission on the deal. Fixed charges in underwriting are legal fees, accountant fees and cuts to dealers. To gross $50,000, which investment bankers generally consider minimum per deal, the banker would have to charge an exorbitant commission to float a small issue. Said Mr. Vass: "The banker can afford to charge but 2% or 3% on the sale of a $10,000,000 or $20,000,000 issue, while he must charge...
...life; intramural athletics are strenuously cultivated and social events benignly encouraged, but the task of stimulating thought and discussion in the Houses has been left to very occasional common room orators. As a partial remedy to this oversight, the Debating Council's plan to organize House Debating teams is worth serious consideration...
...stage show, featuring the fifty-nine-year-old Bill Robinson, grandest tap-dancer of them all, is worth...