Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last October an issue of 6% Baldwin bonds was selling on the New York Curb Exchange at a premium of 11? on the dollar. Without warning, the Baldwin directors suddenly announced that interest payments, not on the bonds publicly held, but on those in the sinking fund, would be suspended. On that first admission of financial difficulties, Baldwin's 6% bonds took a deep nose-dive that carried them down 34 points in three days to 77? on the dollar...
While the leaders of France and Italy sit in a castle on the shore of Lake Maggiore, scratch their heads, and wonder what, if anything, can be done to curb Adolf Hitler, Great Britain keeps an anxious world guessing. A week ago Stresa took on the light of a New Jerusalem in men's minds. It seemed that for the first time in history Europe had stopped being Europe and was putting her cards down flat on the table for a definite showdown...
Just then a Lincoln town car sweeps up to the curb and out steps a merry old man with a flower in his button-hole...
...Metropolitan management had nothing to say, for it has never officially acknowledged its professional clappers. Their Leader, one Harold Lodovichetti, was melancholy. Having inherited his job from his father. Claqueur Lodovichetti has trained his men not only to promote enthusiasm at the right time but also to curb it. An inexperienced operagoer gets a resounding hiss if he applauds at a wrong moment. If the Claque happens to be standing behind him, he may be fairly deafened when the cued moment comes...
...virile Kingfish denies that anyone has tried to smooth his grammar, curb his gestures, or check his vehemence. Despite this, it is a self-evident fact that Huey hasn't called anyone a dammed fool or an unprincipled liar for almost a week...