Word: chip
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Liberty Bank's charge of fraud was most emphatically denied by handsome young Luke Lea Jr. in the absence of his father. Young Luke, who looks much like the Colonel, is admiringly called a block chip by his father's friends. Before Luke Jr. was 21, Colonel Lea had a special bill put through the legislature to give him legal majority and qualify him as a responsible business associate...
...figure 25,000 shares were sold in a single $3,000,000 transaction, but even indirect evidence that J. P. Morgan & Co. was buying failed to halt the decline. When Mr. Whitney was obliged to announce the Prince & Whitely failure from the floor of the exchange, many a blue-chip sank below its 1929 bottom. Traders noted these prices...
...resort of distracted librarians and disappointed the sis-scribblers, the Turnstile, though the only solution for a serious problem, has its more human aspects. Two hundred years hence, its humble metal may be the goal of souvenir-seekers, the present-day transatlantic aeroplane enthusiasts, who will fight for a chip of the swinging arms rubbed thin by the contact with many shrunken, scholarly paunches...
...penalties for undeclared imports. Returning to Manhattan to find she had made Page One all over the U. S., Sister Aimee bemoaned: "I never dreamed . . ." etc. Asked by newshawks if she would pay, she frostily replied : "Oh yes, if the country needs money I'm always glad to chip in. But next time I come in, I'm going to declare everything, even if it's worn to rags!" Some undeclared embroidered pajamas were for Daughter Roberta who remained in Ireland to visit Grandma Semple and to "visit our 30 missions in Africa and India." Edward...
...keen, faintly satirical observer, in Turn Back the Leaves she has written a tragedy of frustration too deep for satire. During the War, Author Delafield did Red Cross work, wrote her first novel in her spare time. She lives in Devonshire. Other books: Mrs. Harter, The Chip and the Block, Jill, The Way Things Are, First Love...