Word: affected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover's advice to bankers: "This depression will be shortened largely to the degree that you feel you can instill into your clients . . . a feeling of assurance. . . . The very atmosphere of your offices will affect the mental attitude and . . . courage of the individuals who depend upon you for counsel and money...
...played with intense and commendable sincerity. Playwright Lynn Riggs has written the saga of a Texas superman who wears a 10-gal. hat, bursts out of gaols, woos and wins Miss Ruthelma Stevens (the comely somnambulist of Hotel Universe). Unfortunately, the speeches and posturings which the cast must affect are not of the sort which result in success in the theatre. Roadside must be recorded as one of the few missteps of Producer Arthur Hopkins...
...Wachsman & Wassail who sold 3,110,000 bu.; Adolph E. Norden of A. Norden & Co., whose sales totalled 2,335,000 bu. The House committee members seemed dazed by the intricacies of grain trading as described by Broker Bache, who denied that the Soviet sales were large enough to affect the pit price, explained that if Russia had wanted to manipulate the world price, it would have sold short in a narrow market such as Liverpool rather than on the world's biggest at Chicago...
...problems handed over to our teachers and their classes here are ones which affect French industry as well...
...enticing or luring Mrs. Beery from her home. ... If there was a man involved in the affair, I might lose my temper. Mrs. Beery is a sick woman and has been under the care of an alienist for three years. She is subject to spells of sickness that affect her mind." Next day Mrs. Beery countered that she had been to Nevada with Cinema Director Raymond Wells on "purely a business matter." Added she: "Will you please ascertain what reward Mr. Beery offered for my discovery? If it is sufficiently large I will have myself brought in" at once...