Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noisy director's room in London, the scene was enacted exactly as Mr. Galsworthy planned it. Sir Thomas Lipton was the oaken figure at the foot of the table. The tea business, a shareholder hinted, had far outgrown the ability of its founder. It needed, perhaps, a younger man - Sir John Ferguson, director of finance. Another share holder pointed out that the company's overdraft at the bank was ?10,000 in March. He would like to know what it was today...
...begun the legend of Manuel, making him out ridicuously admirable for posterity, as a pious widow should. Gonfal of Naimes is told to go southward and does so, becoming a champion of misadventure among the Transcendentalists of Inis Dahut, enjoying the favors of their dark queen, Morvyth, while younger, less sensible men scour the earth for some marvelous token that will win her hand...
Coth of the Rocks, Jurgen's pink, robust, mustachioed parent, goes westward looking for Manuel. He becomes involved with most of the queens and several younger persons on this pilgrimage, but at last manages an interview with his old chief. A western god blows him home-by most Rabelaisian means -to bowse, wench, let the absurd legend of Manuel grow, and to die in his sleep...
...right hand; his left rested on a sceptre on which was perched an eagle. The throne and a footstool were elaborately carved with figures and reliefs, depicting the contests of Centaurs and Lapiths, the wars and weddings of those creatures, part god, part man, that peopled the younger earth. They swarmed at the hips of Zeus and between the legs of his throne, executed by Panaeus, nephew and assistant of Phidias. Scholars have hinted that the figure owed its fame to these entertaining adornments, but Roman writers commented on the power, at once placid and stern, a sort of deep...
...stockholders," "no more damning of public or government," "conforming to existent laws," "cooperation rather than competition," "consideration for labor," "8-hour day." These phrases sound stale nowadays. A generation ago they were novel, might have continued so yet. But Judge Gary who invented them-something few of the younger businessmen know-applied them practically to the conduct of the U. S. Steel Corp., when in 1901 he took command as J. P. Morgan Sr.'s* direct agent...