Word: neither
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with sorrow for the passing of a cherished tradition, then, that Chicagoans read last July of the castle's sale to one Vincent Bendix, head of the Bendix Co., for $3,000,000. Mr. Bendix, they hoped, would neither dilapidate it nor try to carry the Palmer torch. Characteristic was the stipulation postponing his occupancy until the end of November, in order that, last Saturday, Granddaughter Bertha Palmer's presentation to society might be staged in its hallowed halls...
...years has the head of a woman been legally detached in France. Though murderesses have abounded, one and all have successfully pleaded: 1) Faithlessness of the murdered man; 2) Insanity; or 3) Beauty. But last week there was sentenced to the guillotine in Paris a Serbian murderess, Junka Kures, neither insane nor beautiful, and unbetrayed...
...Jack Slattery, a native of the city, and supplanted him as manager. Because Bostonian baseball fans were annoyed at this and because Rogers Hornsby demanded $50.000 yearly, Judge Fuchs sold him. Hornsby likes to bet on horse races; he is imperious and impudent and in Chicago he will be neither captain nor manager but merely second baseman. Next winter again there may be hornswoggling for Hornsby...
...stockholders demand younger blood; 2) he is inefficient, stockholders demand bigger returns; 3) he is dishonest, stockholders demand integrity; 4) he is unwanted, there has been a merger. But when Fred W. Ramsey, president of the Cleveland Metal Products Co. resigned six years ago he was neither 1) old, his age was 42; 2) inefficient, he had helped his concern to succeed; 3) dishonest, nor 4) unwanted. Having succeeded in business, during a quarter-century of sedulous attention to it, he is now free to go the remaining steps to the top in Y. M. C. A. work, for contemporaneously...
Revolt. Author Harry Wagstaff Gribble (who wrote also that near masterpiece. March Hares) announces his theme as though he had himself discovered it. That the children of a fundamentalist preacher should become annoyed at their father's limitations is neither surprising nor interesting. Eventually the clergyman blows his brains out in an improbable manner...