Word: ated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, the public does not respond to this sale, the Treasury is authorized to sell straight government bonds and turn the proceeds over to R. F. C. in return for its unmarketed securities. One issue still in dispute between the House & Sen ate: Shall the Federal Reserve rediscount the collateral accepted by R. F. C. for its loans? The Senate, led by Virginia's Glass, said NO on the ground that such collateral will of necessity be inferior and would therefore weaken the Federal Reserve's strength...
...them he sympathized with their demonstration, fed them all, provided shelter for the night. Father Cox's red truck rolled up to the outskirts of Washington in a torrential rain at 10:15 p. m. Pulling his black weeds about him, he picked his way into a drug store, ate a sandwich, drank a glass of milk, telephoned Washington's chief of police that they were there. That night some of his men slept in the District National Guard Armory. The rest bedded down wet and without supper in blankets and gunny sacks in the trucks, which parked...
...children bounce. They bounce them near the cages. The elephants gulp them down. Then they get sick." A hard rubber ball, said he, killed a hippopotamus in the Cincinnati zoo. nearly killed one in New York. It took two weeks of nursing to save Julie, the Bronx tapir, who ate a soft rubber ball. Mr. Thuman knew only one elephant who could digest rubber balls...
...schoolmates and somebody told Judge Kathryn Sellers. Judge Sellers sent twp U. S. marshals to investigate. The marshals went to the Riley home on Rhode Island Avenue, descended to the basement. They opened the door of a windowless closet and there found something that whimpered and blinked and ate food scraps from a pan. It was the Riley's 12-year-old child. Edith, scarred and filthy. Her case, broached to horrified Washington. D. C. two months ago, was settled insofar as the law could settle it last week...
...Author Ade describes an oldtime Kentucky belle: "You could span her waist with your two hands but she couldn't sit down in a tub." He recounts the feat of Tom Heath, who was ejected from an Irish saloon on St. Patrick's Day "because he ate the shamrocks on the bar, thinking they were watercress...