Word: erection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trot honors went to a mother & son, Mrs. Anna L. Keenan and Walter Keenan of Philadelphia, who described it as "a sort of Rudy Vallee foxtrot. . . . And don't call it the 'Varsity Drag,' please. It's the University, and a very dignified dance." Principal features are an erect body bent slightly forward and the slow drag of the feet from back to front after each step. Collegiate jiggers will dance it with a slight bend of the knee. Conservatives will do it with more dignity, legs straight...
...spite of the denial, Welt am Abend (Communist organ) persisted in circulating as valid news coming "from a highly placed authority" the report that Old Paul was secretly forming a militaristic cabal, which would permanently dissolve the Reichstag, erect a formal dictatorship...
...Churchill is beaten! Throughout he has threatened Mr. Snowden that the Opposition would force him to abandon certain clauses, but those clauses are still there! The Chancellor has got the money he wanted and in the way he proposed to raise it. He has erected the barriers against tax evasion which he intended to erect, and for the first time in five years the finances of the country have been put in a sound, intelligible position...
...formal banquet tendered by the President of France last week Asturias walked in erect and smiling, chatted animatedly with Mm Doumergue and Briand and with Members cf the Corps Diplomatique. Every day thereafter he took moderately long walks in the Paris Bois. He then left for Switzerland to be put through a course of calisthenics at Bern...
...Tailors of Tooley Street!" Of course "Empire Free Trade" is a deliberately misleading name. Major feature of the scheme is to erect a tariff wall around the Empire. (Only incidentally is trade to be free within the Empire.) Last week embittered Chancellor Philip Snowden, a Socialist who is opposed to any tariff wall, sneered at the bankers' manifesto: "Who are these financiers? I've never so much as heard of four of them! Nothing so impudent as professing to represent financial opinion has been forthcoming since the notorious manifesto of the tailors of Tooley Street...