Word: delay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With the even rhythm of great pistons n a pumping system, trains of cars slid to and fro. From distant conduits they sucked in their human packing, shot the swaying masses to central arteries, discharged them through clattering turnstiles which enumerated the herd and propelled any who sought to delay with a genial postern whack." Even his criticisms are a left-handed compliment: "[The Americans] fall into mass hysterias on small provocation; they continually suppose themselves on the verge either of calamity or salvation; everything is exaggerated to a panacea or a menace, so much so that I could...
...Committee, although not empowered to report on Allied War Debts which form no part of the Young Plan, concluded: "The adjustment of all intergovernmental debts to the existing troubled situation of the world?and the adjustment should take place without delay...
...delay caused by the Culbertson children was by no means the only one which preceded a bridge match which compares to an ordinary evening at cards as Waterloo compares to a pillow fight. Mrs. Culbertson dropped her glasses, had them stepped on and finally, with the aid of her husband, found another pair in her lingerie drawer. Editor Frank Crownin-shield of Vanity Fair made a radio speech calling attention to Mrs. Culbertson's corsage of orchids. Author Ring Lardner, retained with upwards of 100 less celebrated newshawks and bridge addicts to report the affair, said: "The people...
...that point is successfully established by the Committee, it is impossible to believe that the French will refuse pointblank to recognize it. That love of legal formality which is part of their national character may cause them to delay active assistance, but in long run France will not sit idly by while the Bruening government falls. Another government in Germany would probably repudiate reparations altogether. The French will not hill the goose that lays the golden eggs...
...World Series. The automobile swerved across the road, landed on the railroad tracks ahead of the train on which the St. Louis team was returning from Philadelphia. A man in the signal tower saw the wreck, switched the train onto a clear track, then shunted it back without delay or mishap...