Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Banker McGarrah would not comment. Friends spoke of the "great sacrifice" it would be for him to quit his august Federal Reserve post; but few thought that he would not choose to go to Switzerland and shoulder Europe's great task...
...happens that my eyesight is seriously impaired and I frequently carry opera glasses to help out. I had anticipated pleasure in looking at, and identifying, many of the august (?) members of the upper house, including Borah, Glass, Tom Tom Heflin who mortally fears, etc. Imagine my chagrin when I lifted my glasses to my eyes, to be told by the doorkeeper that it was verboten to make use of opera glasses in the Senate galleries...
...years Cleveland, the first big U. S. city to try to lift its government above ward politics, has had a City Manager. Three times in the past three years Cleveland has voted to keep City Management. The last vote was in August (TIME, Sept. 2). On that occasion City Manager William Rowland Hopkins breathed a happy sigh, looked out into the night, and declaimed: "The future of Cleveland now seems to lie as straight and clear as yonder moonbeams." Had he been a sterner, less rhapsodical prophet, he would have chosen another simile, for last week, less constant than...
Fortnight ago, for the first time in the history of British heraldry, a newspaper company, having served King and Country well, was granted a coat of arms. Hereafter the august London Times may bear the crest authorized by the Crown in its masthead, on "seals, shields, or otherwise according to the laws of arms...
...leading novelists, a playwright, director of a publishing house, assistant editor of Europe. At seven he wrote imitations of Moliére; at 26 his first play was produced at the Odeon. "- & Co." was ready for the press when the War broke out, was put on sale in August 1917, the day the German army entered Montdidier (50 miles from Paris). "This circumstance was not favorable to the immediate success of the book." Author Bloch read the proofs of "-& Co." while in a hospital recovering from wounds. In 1925 he revised it; the English translation was made from this edition...