Word: overnight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...close of the day, the last quotations will be chalked up on a blackboard. On the following day, traders may not advance or lower these quotations (per pound) by more than 50?. Thus the exchange authorities hope to avert sudden panics. If every bank in Japan failed overnight, the price of silk could not vary by more than 50?* on the next...
...Nick the Greek, many gamblers are known by mysterious and confusing titles. The most successful racetrack gambler at present is Chicago O'Brien, who regards running horses as an investment. Saratoga is his capital; he plays one horse a day, usually a favorite, and never goes broke overnight...
...members of The Ladder's cast, its author, a friend of the producer, whose name is supposed to have been forgotten, its audiences, but most of all the staunch oil man who is its angel. At Houston, the man who got $10,000,000 in oil almost overnight was given an overnight boom for the U. S. Vice Presidency...
...intellectual mien, accept the University's tribute to their various degrees of scholastic endeavor. Tomorrow the stage and scenery undergo a metamorphosis, and all eyes shift to the Thames, teeming with color, and focus upon the eight men on whom depend coveted victory or bitter defeat. With one tremendous overnight sweep the pendulum swings from the sobriety of the Commencement exercises to the frivolous whirl of the Harvard-Yale Regatta, and with it there is the normal transition in the thought and feelings of every loyal graduate and undergraduate. Those who prepared to shed a tear for the finishing Seniors...
Citizens could understand the wisdom of averting a Pullman-porter strike at a time when hosts of potent politicians were boarding overnight trains for Kansas City and Houston...