Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explosion of world interest, Regent Tafari in 1926 shamed and reproved white men thus: "We should never have suspected that the British Government would come to an agreement with another government regarding our Lake Tana!" Ethiopia quietly won the first League round then & there, causing Italy and Britain to drop the mat ter, much as the Hoare-Laval Deal was to be dropped nearly a decade later with a crash heard around the world (TIME...
...Majesty at last gave the straight-armed Fascist salute, originally the Roman salute of the Caesars. After returning it the multitude of women began to file past the urn, dropping in gold rings all morning, all afternoon, well into the night. By this time Rome, with a population of approximately 1,000,000, had given some 250,000 gold rings, the day's total for all Italy being computed later as worth $80,000,000. Among the wives was the Dictator's. Millions of Italian women, unlike their Queen, reacted first to their new iron rings...
Only last week did Playwright MacArthur's first wife, a Chicago newspaper woman, drop her alienation of affections suit against Actress Hayes. That legal tangle was merely a fraction of the excitement that ebullient Mr. MacArthur has brought into his wife's life since 1928. A great cutup, he goes in for such japes as spreading strange lingerie around the home in his wife's absence to see what she will do upon her return. Irregularities like these have evoked such effusive sympathy for Miss Hayes that her husband once thought of founding a Poor Helen Club...
...from the branches of trees or clinging to lamp posts. Thirteen times the voters of Le Puy have elected him either their Municipal Councilor or Mayor. The fourteenth time (1932) they sent him as their Deputy to Paris where he continued his habit of making long speeches at the drop...
...strike (Venetian gondoliers). It impressed her but hardly got under her skin. Back in the U. S., she and her husband set up a co-operative housekeeping venture in Manhattan with some other young intellectuals called themselves A Club. "Everybody"-from Mark Twain to Theodore Dreiser-used to drop in for a chat...