Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Internationalen Zahlungsausgleich, famed in English as BIS (Bank for International Settlements), in French as Bri (Banque des Reglements International-). When he stood up to report, Manhattan Banker Gates W. McGarrah, President of BIZ was seen to have eased his substantial midriff by undoing as usual the two bottom buttons of his vest. What President McGarrah had to do was to report a notable BIZ success and issue to the world an ominous warning which he hoped would produce action...
...Warm Springs, Ga., whither Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York goes for the lessons in walking which he has needed since infantile paralysis attacked him eleven years ago, he last week clambered onto a wooden table fastened to the bottom of his glass-enclosed bathing pool. Helen Lauer, his physiotherapist, clad like him in a bathing suit, helped him onto the table where he lay supine, partially submerged and buoyed up by a foot of water. Miss Lauer, 35, 5 ft. 5 in., hazel of eye, strong of fist, proceeded to massage one by one the 116 muscles...
...American theatre. The stage structure, located in the Rogers Building, formerly the workshop of the Cambridge School of the Drama, is not a revolving one, such as is used in "Grand Hotel", but instead the amphitheatre can be made to turn around on castors and rails fitted to the bottom of the stands. It is hoped that there will be no necessity to roll the wooden stands around while the play is in progress. The tiers of seats will be made to face the two bays which are to be used the most often during the four performances...
...Whitney flatly denied, as he had often denied before, that professional bears had had anything to do with the decline in market prices. He said that the short interest decreased by 230,000 shares during the previous week, while the market level fell to a new bottom. A similar condition existed last October, he said. As to bear raiding, he simply said: "Our investigations have disclosed no bear raids." He suggested that the Federal Government had put the general public into the market by educating the people to a knowledge of securities through Liberty Loan drives, agreed that public officials...
...turned first, for It's Tough to be Famous was withheld from the public for several weeks because of the Lindbergh kidnapping. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., captain of a disabled submarine, having saved the members of his crew is prepared to stay submerged and die. Rescuers pry him off the bottom of the sea and into a more embarrassing if less dangerous predicament. He is welcomed ashore in a paper blizzard. His roommate grabs his pajamas for a souvenir. A manager (Walter Catlett) makes him read effusive speeches to women's banquets. He has to listen to a song called "Scotty...