Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Absinthe frappe" is really an absinthe julep. New Orleans masters put half a teaspoonful of sugar in the bottom of a tall glass, fill up with finely shaved ice, let the sugar dissolve, pour in 1-oz. (jigger) of absinthe, stir with a spoon, and finally add one ounce of carbonated water, drop by drop, stirring all the time until the frappe turns cloudy and thick frost forms on the glass. Similar are French absinthe frappes except for the carbonated water...
...last will and testament): My Chancellor, Adolf Hitler, and his movement have taken a decisive stride of historical importance toward a great goal of leading the German people to inner unity regardless of differences of rank and class. I know much yet remains to be done, and from the bottom of my heart I wish that the act of National Regeneration and Unification may be followed by an act of Reconciliation to embrace the whole German Fatherland...
...test their poise. In his mansionesque Paradise Ranch, he has an immense Wurlitzer organ which he cannot play. He collects jade, says, "The greatest luxury I have is the ability to dress in clean clothes complete from the skin out every day." His favorite pastime is sitting on the bottom of the ocean. To this end his 106-ft. schooner Seaward carries a special 80-lb. helmet and metal shoes. Says DeMille: "It's a great way to keep in condition. ... I always return to the surface completely refreshed...
Fortnight ago RFC offered to advance $10,000,000 to buy Government hides from the packers, thus permitting the tanners to hold the hides off the market until they could be absorbed. Because this plan left the market with a surplus overhanging, hide prices hardly stirred off bottom. Last week it was announced that beginning Sept. 5 Federal Surplus Relief Corp. would buy all hides from Government cattle, eventually distribute them in direct relief as shoes and other leather goods. Hide prices proceeded to rally smartly...
...cotton exchanges hushed their clamor. In England, India and Egypt, brokers awaited news by cable from the nation which grows more than half the world's cotton. Then at the stroke of noon Washington flashed out its best judgment on the 1934 cotton crop: drought in the rich bottom lands west of the Mississippi River had combined with AAA acreage reduction to bring the crop down to 9,195,000 bales-25% below last year, and the lowest, with one exception, in 38 years.* This was more than 1,000,000 bales below the maximum set by the Bankhead...