Word: digged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Allied Debts. The Foreign Secretary contented himself with saying that he had not discussed interallied debts, but in saying it he seized the opportunity of driving home a friendly dig at his colleague the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Winston Churchill...
...loses her rebellious husband in the shuffle. Her feminine friends within her own party cattily try to dig their claws into her. She mortgages her home up to the hilt, although the woman treasurer of her party has blandly decided that there will be no campaign expenses whatsoever. In the end it is a rough and ready politician of the practical school, skilled in all the ruses and handshaking diplomacy of the Old Guard, who saves her from defeat by the naive expedient of voting a large number of dead...
...last analysis the number of tickets that find their way into the hands of robber barons who run the wildcat agencies depends on: a) the honesty of the theatre treasurers and b) the skill with which speculators "dig" for tickets at the box office through groups of confederates. Mr. Brady himself has admitted that these two sources of conspiracy are hard to squelch...
...John Mitchell, who managed this crisis, was not a man of violence. He had little so-called education, but much breadth of understanding. His eyes were keen, his mouth firm, his forehead high. Inflammatory rhetoric was not part of his appeal. Sympathy and dig nity were his tools. Collective bargaining and arbitration were his weapons, the strike only an ultimate resort...
...spoke cheerfully in announcing this news. "Last year," said he, "the guarantors had to pay $351,718.58-or a full 70 % of their guarantee." Anyone mathematically inclined can now figure out that if the affairs of the company continue to improve at this rate, the backers will have to dig into their bankrolls for only 13 additional seasons-that is, until...