Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unkindest was the cut of L'Echo De Paris's famed "Pertinax" (Andre Geraud): "Mr. Hoover who is perhaps within a few months of political ruin ... is sticking at nothing to restore his fortunes." Japanese editors also struck the sour note that the President's proposals were mere electioneering. Icy and astute, Sir John Simon steered the British Press away from this cheap and ineffective sneer by summoning to his hotel all the British correspondents in Geneva. "I implore you," he said, "to give no emphasis to the possible bearing of Mr. Hoover's proposals on the coming presidential election...
...Progressive." In the ears of each & every Roosevelt delegate moving on Chicago last week was the echo of a small phonograph record received through the mail. The record...
...Crash, which is treated well, simply and understandably. The arrival of the new morality, along with its unwanted offspring the confession, magazines, tabloids, etc., is traced, and alcohol and Al receive their due share of space. The steady jeering of Mencken, Lewis, and the highbrows is allowed to echo through the book's pages and upon finishing, one can understand why Mencken once answered the question of why he stays in America by, why do people go to zoos...
...Echo. An echo of Frances T. Wick et al. v. The Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. et al. still reverberated in the Ohio courts last week. Frances T. Wick et al. were the complainants through whom Cyrus Stephen Eaton halted the merger of Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube, and so doing caused his own downfall (TIME, May 4, 1931 et seq.). The echo was an action by which Youngstown's minority sought to force the company to pay them the $1,000,000 they spent in legal fees and other expenses of the original action. Last week they were...
...farmers of New Hampshire keep it in a 50-gallon keg and call it cider. It does not burn like Rhum, it does not bite like Gin, it does not scrape like Scotch. It softens the rough edges, it burnishes the afterglow, and it catches a wind tossed echo of the music of the spheres. And above all it flows from a pitcher the mate to which Hawthorne has called miraculous...