Word: direful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reduced on articles of import whose total value in 1928 was $214,000,000. This amounted to a demand on our part that the world pay us less in goods and more in gold, despite the huge hoard which we already possessed, the weakness in many currencies and the dire need of debtor nations for a better opportunity to sell goods...
...lights dimmed and the curtain went up on Lammermoor, the story of a Scottish clan unraveled in the best possible Italian. For fifteen minutes the Vagabond strove concientiously to construct the story. He tried to recall his Scott to know avail, he tried to resurrect his Italian--with dire complications. At last he gave up and the better to pass the time looked hastily about him. Heigho, here was something better than trying to follow the Opera--the whole audience to a man was asleep. That at least explained one thing, the gentle, persistent whizzing noise he had thought...
...Great Britain just now? Certainly not honest Stanley Baldwin who. bungled the job when it was his and has more than a dim realization of that fact (TIME, Dec. 22). Mr. Baldwin and Mr. MacDonald are warm friends. They created the National Government on a friendly basis in dire emergency. Mr. Baldwin is English to the core. He loves fair play, he loves his pigs and his pipe (he bought a new cherry pipe last week, his only postelection exuberance). Also Mr. & Mrs. Baldwin fear God. They see all around them the workings of a Higher Power able to work...
Gloomily, bitterly, Chicago's 14,000-odd school teachers saw pass last week a sixth pay-day which brought them no money. Total now owed them in salaries since last April is $17,705,000. Many teachers are in dire penury. Some have taken city scrip, which is accepted at par by some merchants, discounted by others. Usurers loan money on the scrip, charge 31% a month interest...
Just To Remind You, In the theatre, last week was a dire week for the nation's infirmities. First there was Just To Remind You, a sturdy expose of the U. S. laundry racket. Then there was Ladies Of Creation, in which the interior decorating business was delicately satirized (see p. 54). After that came The Man On Stilts, which attempted to skewer the mild insanity which surrounds flagpole sitters, marathon dancers and the like...