Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact, the Vagabond is happy enthusiastically to declare Lowell House a success to date. If he can afford the rent, he intends later on to climb five flights to paradise on the sixth floor. Blow the winds as they may, in this remote retreat he will still have one eye on the works...
Dorothy Parker, funny vulgarienne. was awarded the 0. Henry Memorial first prize for her short story "Big Blonde," published in last February's Bookman. Letters and telegrams to the north-woods retreat of Wilson Follett advised him that his story "Oak" had been judged second best. When he did not reply, second prize was given to Sidney Howard, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (They Knew What They Wanted) for his story, "The Homesick Ladies...
Soundly anti-climactic was the remainder of the trading week. The recovery of Thursday afternoon had brought most of the list back to within a few points of its Thursday opening. In the two final days an unofficial but obviously potent banking pool stood ready to prevent a retreat from becoming a rout, a recession from developing into a panic. In addition to the banks already mentioned, the banking pool was described as including George F. Baker's First National, thus renewing the old Morgan-Baker alliance which once caused J. P. Morgan to remark that the friendship...
...same troops, in fighting over the same terrain last spring in the War of Farm Relief, had laid it down as a means of pumping U. S. cash to the farmers. When they were driven out of the lowlands, they carried their Export Debenture pipe along with them in retreat. Now it was down again, by a larger vote than ever before...
Generalissimo Smoot permitted his regular Republican troops to make a strategic retreat under this assault, rather than waste time attempting to hold the lowlands line. His purpose was to straighten out this bad bulge in his tariff line later with the aid of armored tanks and Republican robots from the House...