Word: coin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lent his voice to a benefit for Russian refugees, organized by the Baron von der Hoeven. As Baritone Tcherkassky opened his mouth, someone upset a bottle. Other diners with bottles, imitative, upset theirs. Some, lacking bottles, dropped plates. A red-faced individual at a corner table threw a coin to Tcherkassky; a hundred others with coins, catching the wit of this gesture, also hurled their loose change to him. He sang one song, began another. The uproar continued. But Tcherkassky finished his program...
...decisive mandate from the electorate, emasculated the ancient and honorable House of Lords by reducing its veto on non-financial legislation to the power of delaying a given bill for two years. The lords have continuously been Conservative, almost to a man; and the present cabinet is hoping to coin their temporary popularity in the Commons into a mint of future strength. The power of the lords is to be positively restored by providing that all bills from which the upper house dissents will be drawn up by a committee of sixty, divided equally between the two houses and shared...
...German guilder varied with the time and place. The present-day guilder is a Dutch coin worth about 40? (exchange is nearly normal); and 1,000 guilders would be, therefore, about...
...been taken by some as marking the end of the danger of "gold inflation" in America. The exports of American gold were mainly occasioned by large foreign loans recently floated in this country. J. P. Morgan & Co., for example, in one day sent $5,000,000 in gold coin to the German Reichsbank, on account of the $110,000,000 German loan sold here this fall. This single gold shipment exceeds all exports of gold to Germany from New York since...
...legislation would be directed against the railroads ; the fact that Great Britain put off the corduroys of Socialism for the suave dinner-jacket of a Conservative ministry. These were the occurrences that made small investors fish stuffed stockings from behind stoves and rush to the curb with their coin; that made big investors say to their brokers, "Buy!" between every puff of their long black cigars. Those who outlined these reasons pointed most of all to the first one. Drum-major in the band from whom the swaggering racket swelled, they said, was a skinny man from Vermont...