Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House when it voted the President another $100,000,000 for relief. Mr. Woodrum set out to explore the Workers Alliance of America-WPA, unemployed & reliefers' union which claims 400,000 members, of whom 150,000 pay 10? to $1 monthly dues.* Leaders of the Alliance are shrewd, sharp-nosed President David Lasser and shrewd, sharp-nosed Secretary-Treasurer Herbert Benjamin. Mr. Woodrum put President Lasser on the stand first...
...Wild Bill" Wasserman started his business career with a $1,500,000 nest egg his father made manufacturing carpets. He has substantially enlarged it by managing two investment trusts, the Investment Corp. of Philadelphia and the Delaware Fund, Inc., and by using his sharp eyes in a number of ways. In 1931, for example, he took a look at Russia's bumper wheat crop, concluded that it would depress the world market, and took a short position in sterling that netted...
HARLEQUIN HOUSE-Margery Sharp-Little, Brown...
...Margery Sharp is a bright-eyed, diminutive, facetious English girl whose The Nutmeg Tree was a surprise best-seller two years ago. As a followup, Harlequin House is less surprising; it tells a bouncing, bubbling, frankly inconsequential story about giddy Lisbeth and her shiftless brother Ronny, with Lisbeth managing four men at once in a campaign to reform Ronny who had spent six months in jail for somebody else's racket...
...merry-go-round, a middle-aged Londoner with 152 pairs of red socks, who is mesmerized so completely that even Lisbeth cannot break the spell she casts over him. Mostly pleasant nonsense, Harlequin House is sometimes so addled that a reader is diverted by wondering how Author Sharp can unscramble her puzzle. He finds that she fits it together so neatly that nothing is lacking but a point...