Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kept his head cool and clear enough to make no rash mistakes. He listened carefully to the astute Colonels Howe & House. He trusted hustling Jim Farley to line up the important West and Midwest. He appealed to and for the Forgotten Man without going so far off the deep end of demagoguery that he could not regain his balance among potent conservatives...
Compact, dynamic, blue-eyed "Lion" Arturo Alessandri, president in 1920-25, owes his nickname to his rich, deep voice, his leonine platform personality. Not a buccaneering South American dictator, he has just been constitutionally elected (TIME, Nov. 7). Also he wrote most of the Constitution, adopted in 1925 and since then trampled on by Chilean dictators galore. The inauguration of President Alessandri last week meant a return from Chilean chaos (which produced ten Chilean regimes in the past 18 months) to normal, civilian rule. But after such upheavals even a "normal" president must make concessions to the mob, especially since...
...City Times and Daily Oklahoman. He had written that University fraternity "pledges" were in rebellion against the "mop-handle bondage" of menial tasks put upon them during initiation. The floggers who punished him for his criticism had assumed the garb of a secret,banned society Rover-boyishly entitled the "Deep Dark Mystery Club...
...named Howard Scott with a wide-brimmed hat and a prodigiously rapid, sharp, agile tongue, was being received and handed around by alert tycoons, notably Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip. From one drawing room and dinner to another he moved everywhere causing gasps of amazement, scowls of worry, questions of deep and inquiring respect...
...have seen a specimen of Willoughby's ragfish. Few would care to. It looks crushed and anemic, has few bones. Ichthyologists think it may belong to a family of specialized and degenerate percoids (perch, sunfish). Only six have been taken from their habitat, the deep Pacific waters off the North American coast. Seattle residents and visitors may now see a Willoughby's ragfish in an aquarium unique in the U. S., if not in the world. George Yaeger is the Scandinavian manager of the Port of Seattle's Frozen Fish Department. No scientist, he is an oldtime...