Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bull market ex-President, the believer that the business of the U. S. is Business, he chose as subject for his first pronouncement the depressed state of trade, viewing it as a psychological phenomenon (see p. 39). Next he surveyed the nation's moral fibre: ". . . its founders . . . sought to live in the things of the spirit. They put first things first, They set small store on the things that are temporal but strove mightily for the things that are eternal. If this nation is to endure, we shall have to continue to walk by their light...
...look bored (instead of standing on both feet and joining in "God Save the King"). Indeed as Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin resembled exactly an amiable sheep dog licking his paws, but last week as Leader of the Opposition, fighting perhaps for his political life he was magnificent-John Bull at bay He began by revealing that Lord Rothermere has made two demands (as the price of support by his Daily Mail and Goliath newspaper chain for the Conservative...
Certainly a line or two in "Milestones" could chronicle this fact along with the announcement of elections of other bishops. Isn't a bishop more important than the death of a bull or a camel (TIME, June 2)? I have a hunch that this is a good steer...
...direct thing he had anticipated. Husbandmen would not "cooperate" on mere orders from the Board. Commission men fought back desperately when their business was squeezed by cooperatives. Foreign countries could not be forced to buy U. S. crop surpluses. Wheat prices refused to rise when the Board tried to bull the market by direct buying. Business men flayed the Board for its "socialistic program" of government-in-business (TIME, April...
...museums, enthusiasts, tycoons the world over. Often he is acclaimed a Master; "it is even said that soldiers of the Red Army stand as guards of honor before his paintings in the Soviet museums." Yet many a purchaser has been puzzled at heart by the scrawl of a cadaverous bull, the entirely blue circus-rider, the patchwork of pasted cloth, cement, brickdust he has bought. And many a student has sought passionately to copy the processes-"researches," "experiments"- by which Painter Picasso attains undeniable effects. Hence many an "ism," including most of Cubism...