Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, April 6, p. 19 that-"The kookaburra . . . swallows snakes and laughs" would not therefore receive general acceptance in the land where the dawn is signalled Galli-Curci-like with an explosion of ringing notes, amid a quick fire of echoes, the world awakes with a bang; and though abrupt and startling the onset kooka rushes exultingly into a rifle shot pealing crescendo, terminating in high pitched demoniacal mockerj'. S. E. BUTLER...
...body. Still another reason for Wigman dancing was advanced last week in Manhattan by Dancer Erna Wassel, pupil of Dancer Wigman. It will help women pedestrians with their traffic problems, she said, and forthwith initiated a course of stop & go steps. Pupils must learn to come to an abrupt stop in the midst of a run, to leap suddenly in the midst of a leisurely walk...
That St. Gandhi will visit the U. S. was still uncertain last week, Boston's confident Mayor notwithstanding. More important than trouser-talk was Mr. Gandhi's abrupt decision to constitute himself the sole delegate of his Indian National Congress at the Second Indian Round Table Conference in London. With breath-taking simplicity he explained, "This arrangement will cost less...
...Austria, where the powerful Christian-Socialist party of Monsignor Ignaz Seipel is opposed on principle to even economic union with Protestant Germany, the menacing reactions of France and Czechoslovakia produced an abrupt, startling result. For a few days at least almost the whole press got behind Austrian Foreign Minister Johann Schober, champion of the pact. He was able to talk big and bold. He threatened to appeal to the Hague Court...
Because France has too much gold (see p. 19) and Mexico too much silver, financiers in half a dozen countries worried last week. At the end of the week Mexico's silver troubles came to an abrupt climax with the announcement that for the next two years Mexico would suspend gold payments of $25,500,000 on bonds normally falling due Jan. 1, 1933 according to the Lamont-Montes de Oca agreement of last July. At the office of Finance Minister Luis Montes de Oca in Mexico City and at the offices of J. P. Morgan...