Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...founder of London's biggest department store, landed in Manhattan. Of the Roosevelt Administration, he said: "When businessmen find an experiment does not work, they drop it immediately." Few days later he arrived by airplane at Oshkosh. Amid a wild honking of horns he motored to his birthplace at small Ripon, Wis., had a park named for him, received an L.H.D. from Ripon College. That night, at a banquet during the course of which an overtaxed lighting system thrice broke down, white-thatched Dr. Selfridge delighted Riponese by his vocabulary of U. S. slang...
...While in Africa the cannon throw their projectiles and airplanes drop their bombs," the Acting President told the New York Herald Tribune's Forum on Current Affairs, ". . . we are determined not to enter into armed conflicts that may arise between other countries, and to enforce such policies as may be required to avoid that risk...
...expected to devalue any day. To frosty bankers it must eternally seem like bluffing when a fire-eating politician shouts at the top of his lungs, screams in headlines and has cut into a monument at Pesaro: "We will defend the lira to the last breath, to the last drop of blood...
...qualities of simplicity and tenderness, in which the best French pictures have so often outclassed Hollywood, give these little scenes a dramatic impact which, by comparison, makes the collapse of Pompeii (see p. 52) a pin drop. Good shot: in the ring of faces around the white rabbit, a minute, snub-nosed Negro, speechless with approval...
Britain's new prince has a very thin chance of ever becoming King-Emperor. Now seventh in line of succession to the throne, he will drop further behind as his uncles and young cousins propagate. His prime distinction is that he is the first son of a son of King George...