Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apart from raising an estimated $1,000,000 and enlisting the solid support of the California Press, the tactics of conservatives have proved largely negative. In self-defense, Acting Governor Merriam espoused, under his breath, the Townsend Plan, a wild-eyed scheme to pay oldsters $200 a month with the understanding that each month's pension be spent in full within 30 days. But nobody took him seriously. Big drive of the "nonpartisan" Stop Sinclair movement took the form of a blizzard of pamphlets proclaiming: "Out Of His Own Mouth Shall He Be Judged." Material was culled from Author...
...tried all the known diets to rid himself of nervous dyspepsia: vegetarian, raw meat, raw vegetables, nuts. milk. But he could probably subsist on publicity alone. It is meat and drink to him. He is not much of a businessman. In one breath he says that his publishing business brings him in more than the $10,000 salary of California's Governor. In the next he swears he has less than $150 in the bank. Fact is, the Sinclairs are still floundering in insolvency as a result of financing Director Sergei Eisenstein's Thunder Over Mexico, Upton...
...earth for its floor. Absent is the late pale green of heaven, the distant rims of the world are suffused into the gathering twilight. The land is barren and fruitless except for the smiling champaigns of flowers blotched intermittently throughout all the wastes. There is no wind, or breath of air, or life along this unemancipated expanse of soil. For the world and all its singing birds and budding trees and songs and mountains and summits are shut outside. There is no life here. There can never be life save for that antique brown dress, the natural and invariable garment...
Hardly had France drawn its easy breath (see above) than it was knocked breathless by the assassination of her Foreign Minister...
...January 1932 Sweden slid off the gold standard and into a bold experiment in "managed currency" as the world's economists held their breath. By last week Sweden was so solvent that it moved to redeem the last $13,000,000 of a $30,000,000 bond issue marketed in the U. S. in 1924 and not due until 1954. For the first time taciturn Swedish officialdom, through the National Debt Office, gave credit to the managed currency system. Last week some economists agreed with the Debt Office while others were not so certain...