Word: beckoning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Standard argument of the investment trust is the alleged inability of the individual to choose stocks wisely. Let older and wiser heads, operating with large amounts of capital (runs the argument) do your investing for you. Then to you the poorhouse will never beckon, and at your door no wolf will ever howl. Logical, in many ways, is this theory (though it involves faith, hope and occasionally some charity regarding investment trusts and their management) but many a U. S. investor, doggedly individualistic, will doubtless continue to pick his own issues, watch his own ticker and, if necessary, lose...
Today, at about 46, he is "a mass of nerves and a bundle of nerve." He wants a good rest. But acres of undeveloped land, undrilled, remain his. They may beckon...
...years. Dr. Kellogg is not likely to be called over to the Hoover administration from his Potomac-viewing office in the Academy of Science-unless an emergency arises. In cases of crisis he is typical of a widely-scattered corps to whom the White House could beckon without political hesitation, or official formality...
...work works out. But whether or not it goes well and whether or not there is a White House wedding before March, the Coolidge family seemed to have been reduced pretty permanently to two. What Washington wondered was: where will they go, now that he has but to beckon for a lordly income, now that she has grown accustomed to spaciousness? Architects were anxious. Before the White House, the Coolidges were content to live in hotels. Before that it was the two-family house ($32.50 per month) on Massasoit Street. Believers in the Grand Manner almost wished that there...
...melodrama or a revue or an operetta or a moving picture or any other convenient excuse for 'going to the theatre'-in fact, it's a PLAY, so let it PLAY; and because you are here, let it PLAY with you. Let it dart off and beckon to you from the distance, let it tiptoe back and snap its fingers under your nose, let it sweep up at you from below or pounce down on you from above, let it creep cautiously behind you and tap you on the back of the neck...