Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unrecognizable when last photographed (see cut) except for his trademark, the patch across one blind eye. Others were arriving in Manhattan, London and Paris heart-shocked by the altitude; nausea-shocked by the fleas, flies and filth; sleepless from malaria and dysentery; jittering and at such low ebb that their journalistic employers sent them to secluded rest homes. On the subject of altitude able United Press European News Manager Webb Miller vividly said: "You would lie down, thoroughly fatigued, your heart would palpitate and you would get scared, thinking you were going to die. Then would come fits of weeping...
Nearest Italian bombs of the week thundered in the countryside a good 100 miles from Addis Ababa, but native morale was at lowest ebb thus far. The Most Reverend Kyrillos, Abuna of Ethiopia's Coptic Christian Church, hailed the peace deal proposed by Britain & France as "Words of God." To the Abuna the great feature of The Deal was one scarcely noticed out-side Ethiopia but showing the grasp of native mentality applied by Mr. Maurice Drummond Peterson, technical expert of Britain's Foreign Office, in concocting The Deal. It provides that Italy must evacuate, surrender and restore...
...December 13 the Bellboys will present the "Beggar's Opera," a play written in 1720 by John Gay, at the lowest ebb of English morals...
...Pont, 70, purchaser, reorganizer and onetime (1902-16) head of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (explosives, chemicals); of heart disease; at "Epping Forest," his estate near Jacksonville, Fla. An explosives expert, Alfred du Pont surprised his family by offering to buy the firm, then at low ebb, upon the death of Eugene du Pont in 1902. After increasing its assets from $15,000,000 to $82,000,000. he was ousted by his cousins Pierre Irénée and Lammot du Pont, with whom he maintained a bitter feud. Irascible, deaf, blind...
...objection?" This, correspondents pleaded, was not enough. A reigning monarch is never interviewed, but could they not have the honor of quoting Siam's former King of the North and of the South, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother of the Moon, Half-brother of the Sun and Possessor of the Four and Twenty Golden Umbrellas...