Word: acridly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less effective weapon for engagement-breaking than the information Raymond can supply about the debts of Mrs. Wetherby. The man in possession buys the debts, breaks up the wedding party, takes possession of the furniture and, finally, of Crystal. Taylor's Raymond is more amatory, less acrid than that of Robert Montgomery in the earlier screen version; Harlow's Crystal is a lady so enameled she seems on the point of chipping...
...many a philatelist can (and probably will) inform you, the violet-brown likeness of the acrid old Unionist who marched through Georgia adorned the 8? stamp of the regular issue throughout the decade 1894-1904. That 40 years back Sherman was thus licked by innumerable Southerners (without poisonous effect) and that his likeness underwent besmirchment at the hands of many a Southern postmaster makes the present sputtering of legislative bodies in South Carolina and Georgia seem pointless indeed...
...fine fettle last week was Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, acrid chairman of the Senate committee investigating railroad finance. Fortnight ago the Senator unearthed amid the yellowing records of the Van Sweringen empire and the dust bins of Guaranty Co. history one gem of purest ray serene. This was a memorandum written in 1930 by John Minor Botts Hoxsey, listing expert of the New York Stock Exchange, warning that "public protest" would follow the multiplication of such corporations as the Van Sweringen holding companies, for which Guaranty Co. underwrote and the Stock Exchange approved an ill-fated $30,000,000 bond...
...long time Tulsa, Oklahoma, had the said oil helds and the acrid stench of petroleum, the world said, "Of Oklahoma expect only the and the oil of the soil." Yet KVOO of produced such ideahists in radio as Kathryn former Tulsa University student, whose voice resounds from coast coast in Columbia's Through a Woman's Miss Cravens tried and the stage before voice was radio. Now an manufacturer is have her voice his auspices
...Varela was fighting on the bank of the Manzanares River which flows through Madrid's western and southwestern sections. Day after day the besiegers tried in vain to thrust across three of the river's bridges and battle their way into the city. Under a blanket of acrid smoke, White shock troops violently attacked Los Franceses Bridge, failed to enter Madrid only because the Red militia blew up the bridge and captured three White tanks that had wormed their way across the river into the Radical lines. The Red militia outnumbered the White Army last week...