Word: chaotic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treating the Platt Amendment as a dead letter, eschewing intervention, and extending immediate recognition and moral support to the present regime; or it can land troops in Cuba, restore order, and see that a stable representative government is established. The adoption of either of these courses would calm the chaotic situation now existing and make some sort of recovery possible for the unhappy island. Instead of doing this Secretary Hull has resurrected the thoroughly discredited Stimson Doctrine, which gained for its originator the soubriquet of "Wrong horse Harry," and applied it to Cuba. The effect of this has been...
...Julian Thompson, adapted from the German of Walter Hasenclever; Lee Shubert, producer). Behind Her Man of Wax is an idea as excellent as any that ever suffered mutilation at the hands of an adapter. Napoleon reappears in 1933. is hailed as a savior by a chaotic world until it is discovered that a 19th Century man cannot cope with 20th Century problems...
...increased by Mr. Wells' quaint gesture of including a few patent words, similar to the synthetic vocabulary of Mr. James Joyce, to lend the writings of the future an unnecessary flavor of impossibility. Be it regarded as history or romance, "The Shape of Things to Come" is faulty and chaotic in organization; this short-coming is aggravated by the fact that its creator neglected to instruct his secretary to make that handy appendage, an index...
...Chicago Tribune has approved defrilling Chicago schools on the ground that retrenchment is the only way to head off a chaotic year like the past one. Last week it was pleased to note that the Save-Our-Schools Committee and its rival the Herald & Examiner were wrong about one thing. They had insisted that it would cost $800,000 to make the old junior high schools suitable for seniors. The contracts let last week totaled only $87,686. The Herald & Examiner countered that this was merely the preliminary cost, that there would be more to pay later...
...Herald Tribune. To him the Senate investigation pointed a large question, and a need for reform whichever way the question might be answered. The question: "Whether . . . there is a Money Trust directed by J. P. Morgan & Co.- or whether the business [of capital investment] is ... highly competitive and dangerously chaotic...