Word: writings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long his mistress, whom he married last fortnight. After posing protrusively for newscameras, Davis, whom Dewey detectives still guard night & day, denied helping Dewey try to find Lepke, complained: "Everybody is looking for Lepke and finding me! I want to go away with Hope to some small town and write fiction...
Goodrich, when the rubber market collapsed in 1937, took a $5,653,000 inventory write-down which put it $878,580 in the red (even after a $593,249 profit on foreign exchange). But last week, Goodrich's President Samuel Brown Robertson reported sales up 27.4%, a $3,122,728 profit, instead of last year's $209,551 loss...
...slightest slight did TIME intend to put on Mr. Robertson, but TIME does not know the addresses of its newsstand buyers. Though admission to the library is by card only, he or any other newsstand buyer of TIME can obtain a guest card by writing to TIME'S Chicago office (330 East 22d Street). He will find a few exhibits, no dancing girls, no glimpses of the World of Tomorrow-just a cool roomy place high above the city where he can 1) meet his friends, 2) read his hometown newspaper, 3) write his letters, 4) see television...
...Polish frontier from Danzig to Cracow; five German divisions in motion near Breslau; schools in Bohemia transformed into hospitals; troops and supplies moving east through Ostmark*-all this convinced him that "it would be disastrous, it would be pathetic, it would be shameful for the House to write itself off as an effective and potent factor in the situation. . . ." If things were in dead balance, no move should be taken that might weaken resistance to aggression...
...making a better match. . . . The wise girl keeps a wary eye out to note how a man reacts to the money proposition before she says 'Yes' to a marriage proposal. . . . Few grafts are more profitable than comforting a widower. But remember that fast work is required. . . . Girls write their own price tags. . . . Don't feed men flattery in hunks, with a shovel. They resent this." One Lure Men Can't Resist is: "The come-hither look in the eye, a sort of come-on look if you get what I mean...