Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle of his middle-aged decay Miltiades looks about Florence for some foothold to begin his climb. A drunken confession on the part of T. Handback, the town's wealthy merchant, gives him his chance. Years ago Handback had cheated Miltiades of his small fortune in cotton ; now, when the Colonel learns that the highly respectable Handback keeps a quadroon mistress, Gracie Vaiden, one of the old Vaiden slaves, he uses the information to pry himself, as a clerk at $7.50 a week, into Handback's store. Straight way he makes friends with the Negroes and poor whites, by selling...
...changes his mind as often as women are supposed to do, switches his programs to suit the times. Thus in 1929 when Columbia University made him a Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) he was shouting for more and bigger loans to Chile, which many Chileans feared as "giving a foothold to imperialism." No sooner did times turn really bad than he popped up at Santiago as a bantam Stalin. A man with a host of friends, a good fellow, spender, gourmet, racy raconteur, Don Carlos was not down last week merely because he seemed...
...last year with the purchase, by a subsidiary, of a company previously controlled by Mr. Insull's fellow Chicagoan, Harley Lyman Clarke, through Utilities Power & Light. In 1931 Mr. Insull bought the eastern electric and water properties of Abram Edward Fitkin's Atlantic Public Utilities, Inc., giving him a foothold in every Atlantic State except Rhode Island...
...students; and all over the country they are doing it. In the parlance of trade, the colleges are in a buyers' market. As Mr. Lowell, of Harvard, puts it: "The idea that going to college is one of the inherent rights of man seems to have obtained a baseless foothold in the minds of many people. To select the fit and devote our energies to them is our duty to the public for whose service we exist...
...rain clouds rolled back like a grey curtain. The yellow afternoon sun turned the thousand gilded spires of Bangkok into spikes of flame. Along the waterfront, in ferryboats, tugs, launches, sampans and barges, every Bangkokian who could find foothold was wedged, patiently waiting, eyes fixed on the royal yacht Mahachakri as it poked its golden prow toward the landing. The King & Queen of Siam were returning from...