Word: split
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three days last week the crater, its mouth split and broken by the violence of convulsions within, spewed destruction while pious Italian peasants watched in terrified fascination, mumbling prayers that the engulfing flood would spend itself before it reached their homes. Hot ashes filled the air for miles around. A wall of steaming, writhing lava rolled fearfully along the Valley of Hell, smashing fences and houses before it, burying vineyards forever under a smoking, sluggish mass...
Cinemactor Adolphe Menjou was dinner guest in Manhattan last week of the Men's Hat Trade and Allied Industries. The 600 celebrants were bidden to wear dinner coats. On the invitations appeared the warning: "The correct straw hat to wear with a dinner coat is a china split yacht." Men wise in the intricacies of hat-making, hat-selling (TIME, May 27) gave learned speeches. Cinemactor Menjou, elegantly representing the hatted classes, declared that no properly dressed man would think of owning less than a dozen hats. He himself, epitome of grooming, owned 22, had brought them...
...between Investment News and the more conservative financial papers is in the Macfadden publication's willingness to give specific tips on specified stocks. Thus in one day's issue, there was definite bull advice on International Business Machines (headed for the 200 mark), on General Electric (may split 4 for 1), Baltimore & Ohio (earnings may be $15 a share this year), and on many another stock. There was also definite bear counsel on Public Service of New Jersey (priced too high), American Power & Light (why buy stocks at their high?), Wright Aero (headed for lower levels soon...
...when it travels to New Haven to oppose the Eli track and field men Saturday afternoon. But Harvard's track teams have a habit of outdoing themselves against the Blue and this year's group in particular has showed an ability in the Dartmouth meet to fight for the split point and the final third place...
Three-for-One. The more usual variety of stock split-up was reported by Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts, Ltd., of Canada, shareholders approving a three-for-one split-up, with rights. Hiram Walker is, of course, famed as whiskey-maker. U. S. interest in the split-up was keen in Missouri, whose Congressman Leonidas Dyer recently purchased Hiram Walker stock without knowing the nature of the product and sold, precipitately, at a loss, when the horrid truth became evident to him. Congressman Dyer talked of suing the Manhattan Curb to get back his lost money. Had he not been...