Word: bond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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American automobiles were in bond awaiting the expiration of the 33 ⅓% ad valorem duty imposed in 1915 as a war measure by Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald McKenna. British manufacturers were gloomy at the prospect of having to compete on an equal footing with Americans. Great loss of business was envisaged. The decision to repeal the duties was contained in Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden's budget (TIME...
Despite explanations that the loan was to meet pressing obligations and was not to show especial love for the U. S., the "Klan" cabled Fuka- zawa, President of the Electric Co., who was in the U. S., to cancel all bond subscriptions or make up his mind never to return to the land of the Cherry Blossom and the Death Penalty Club...
...Chief attention was given to experiment and new development in education−a day to "the newest methods in the training of teachers," a day to the Dalton System (mode of secondary education, perfected by Miss Parkhurst of Dalton, Mass.). Eminent literary men delivered addresses on "English as a Bond of Empire." At one of the sessions, Alfred Noyes, poet and former lecturer at Princeton University, presided...
...loan show of the Contemporary Art Society in Colnaghi's, Bond St., London, the Prime Minister of England opened an exhibition of modernist French painting. Represented were Braque, Perain, Dufresne, Dufy, Flandrin, Friez, Marchand, Matisse, Picasso, Segonzac, Utrillo, Bonnard. The Prime Minister seemed quite familiar with such names and quite at home in the midst of Contemporary Art. "He proceeded to state, without false gusto, a few simple truths about Art, pointing out that Art, like Nature, never dies, that the old masters of today were once contemporaries, a fact too frequently forgotten by their exclusive worshippers, that...
...Britain's second best (after ex-champion A. G. Havers). Play was still led, at 302, for 72 holes, by Whitcombe, until sleek "Walto" added up his 301 and shook hands with everybody. It was a brilliant "victoree," it re-convinced golfdom that beneath "Walto's" glossy and bond-salesman manner there lie rock-ribbed nerves and a truly sporting temperament...