Word: soared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Inspektor & Frau Katzenjammer together with gargantuan balloon animals of indeterminate breed and sex, had bobbled down Broadway. An admiring crowd had watched their maudlin progress to the front of the R. H. Macy's (department store)?which they were advertising. There the ropes were cut and the Katzenjammers soared off into the sky followed by the vague animals. Herr Inspektor, loath to soar, ogled into office windows until 20 feet had been cut off his traditional whiskers...
...from her father, old Sir David Yule, who had built it up from four mills which devolved upon him from his father-in-law, Andrew Yule, who first made Indian jute world-famed. It was the War's demand for sandbags which caused jute prices to soar and the Yule wealth to become fabulous. Much, however, of Miss Yule's $100,000,000 was in cash; for the jute part of the fortune had been acquired by J. P. Morgan & Co., now most potent factor in world jute.* To big companies the Exchange means no revolution in marketing...
...buzzards that soar over St. Louis, Mo., were perplexed last week. No idle fliers themselves, they were obliged to alight now and then, to eat, to drink, to sleep, or just to consider with angry red eyes the creature, much bigger than a buzzard, which droned around in circles through the sky all through one week, all through the next week, on into another week, without ever coming down. Now and then another big creature would roar up from the ground and hover solicitously over the soaring one, evidently feeding it or something through a long hose. Other creatures would...
Every day in Manhattan hundreds of Interborough Rapid Transit subways charge through the warm odorous gloom underneath the streets. Uptown they soar to daylight on elevated tracks, downtown they dip beneath the east river to Brooklyn. I. R. T. advertisements say that 1,000,000 people ride them daily. Each ride costs a nickel. I. R. T. potentates have long claimed that the nickel fare is not enough to meet expenses...
Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., president of General Motors, before sailing for Europe on the Olympic last week, issued a long statement, of which the meat was that General Motors would cut a very fat melon in November. The stock did not soar, because some such statement had long been expected in Wall Street and the stock had already completed a steady rise...