Word: digs
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Mister, you sure started something when you wrote that article in TIME, March 18, titled "Innocent in Wall Street," in which you mentioned the ad in the Wall Street Journal in which I advertised for a partner with $15,000 to help me dig a well and me getting in a mess with...
This year the CRIMSON is particularly anxious to get photographers who are interested in writing news and feature articles to go with their pictures. The competition will lay emphasis on ability to dig up news and organize illustrated feature articles on subjects of University interest such as the graduate schools, the scientific departments, college organizations, and sports...
...every day, as long as I live, I am just going to keep on figureing that if it is against the law to advertise for a partner to dig a well, I sure am going to keep my own ideas. I am just a well digger, not a lawyer, but I sure figure that if it is against the law to advertise in a public newspaper half interest in an oil producing property, it sure as hell is also against the law to advertise half interest in a Greek restaurant. That sure would be tough on the Greeks, just like...
...Yankee is "a reasonably honest, good citizen, who obeys the laws-pretty well." Added the New York Herald Tribune: "A Connecticuter of the old line in a New York penthouse may have less of the 'old traditional Yankee perspective' than an immigrant who is still willing to dig stones out of the hillside pasture...
...success (and a potent budget-balancing aid) is his ability to find eager, knowing young assistants who work hard for small pay. Several of his curators-Henry Plumer Mcllhenny, Henry Clifford, Boies Penrose -are so well off that Kimball affectionately calls them "my millionaires." Down into their pockets dig these three for many of the museum's top-flight special exhibitions. Even more significant is a growing list of "my young men" who now head important U. S. museums and got their first museum training under Kimball at Philadelphia. Some of them: Director-elect Francis Taylor of the Metropolitan...