Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gilbert, Robert or Oswald-Oswald, Robert or Gilbert? For months political observers have played a counting-out game with these names trying to guess who was to succeed Sir Esme Howard as British Ambassador to Washington. Last week came abrupt word from London that neither Oswald, Robert or Gilbert, but Ronald is It. Sir Oswald Mosley, famed Socialist baronet, remained Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Sir Robert Vansittart, secretary to Prime Minister MacDonald and favorite of the counters-out, was appointed Head of the Foreign Office as Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Professor Gilbert Murray, violent...
Said President Katzenberg: "Abrupt price fluctuations are most devastating to dealers, tanners and importers. With the Exchange in operation there will be a ready market, and while the trend will be governed by actual conditions prevailing in the trade, fluctuations will be reasonably regulated and [traders] will have an opportunity to make hedge sales whenever they feel inclined...
...surprised, therefore, when the great restriction plan last December came to an abrupt and official end. Only the Sugar Export Co. remained as a potential marketing machine for use in future emergencies...
...hiding in that ancient stone tower. At any rate, the governments of Europe especially are tiring of this excitement, so the Communistic party in Russia has decided to purge itself of the young moderns and take up her interrupted liaison with the more substantial Madame Prosperity. Spain is more abrupt, and has threatened to imprison all students who attack the existing dictatorship...
...east end of the hall are three abrupt steps up. Beside them, in the hall's southeastern corner, once sat "Bill" Price of the Washington Star, first of all Washington newsgatherers to make a serious enterprise, under McKinley, of "covering" the President. All newsmen have long since been banished from the inner White House. Until Roosevelt's time, the President's executive offices were up the three steps, filling all second-story space over the East Room. The East Room's extra height elevates the second floor here, thus lowering the sills of the upstairs windows...