Word: partnerships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Midway between the two portraits glimmers a mirror over whose forgetful surface have played the intervening years, as reflected in Ann's face and figure?Peter Smith's pioneering in steel; the "partnership" they were to have had in this as man and wife; his reticence and absorption in the business; their first quarrels, his prosperity, their children; the great fire and his phoenix-like rise therefrom...
...placed in Peter's care the wealth she got from her uncle. How incapable of "partnership" he was had been apparent when, in the business panic, she had rushed down to tell him he could use her bonds?and found he had already done so. The disunion had hurt her worse than dishonesty. She had slept in the guest room, gone abroad. In Paris she had nearly, not quite, succumbed to an animated young tenor?who came to tea years later, paunchy, professional, perplexed...
...India told their lordships, "we shall not be niggardly bargainers if we meet the generous friendship which is near and dear to our hearts. We no longer talk of holding the gorgeous East in fear, but ask India to march side by side with us in fruitful, harmonious partnership which might create the greatest and proudest days of Indian history...
...drew up the Uniform Sales Act, the Uniform Conditional Sales Act, the Uniform Warehouse Receipt Act, the Uniform Bills of Lading Act, and the Uniform Negotiable Instruments Act. After stating that the Uniform Stock Transfer Act was "perhaps still excusable," Mr. Hemphill added: "But then came the Uniform Partnership, Acknowledgments, Aeronautics, Desertion and Non-Support Acts -and then a real fever, a mad desire to make everything uniform.* There followed a wholesale production of nonsense, and the plant is still in 100% operation. . . . Mr. Madison's ideas of the rights of the States are still worth fighting...
When Weber and Fields dissolved partnership in 1904, and the curtain, descending to the strains of Auld Lang Sync, ended the company's farewell performance, notables of society, stage, politics stood up in their chairs, weeping, shouting, refused to leave until Weber, until Fields, had responded...