Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ronald Finney went to Topeka to give himself up. His father went with him, refusing to believe that he was guilty. Said the elder Finney: "His transactions from the first of the year showed a profit in excess of $200,000, according to information given me by his auditors. His losses on the wheat market last month were not in excess of $65,000. "We have purchased 30,000 head of cattle in Texas together. Delivery is to begin next week and Ronald is to be at the loading points to check in the cattle. We have a profit...
President Roosevelt had a mild stomach ache last week when the stockmarket took its first bad tumble of the New Deal. His ailment was not due to the sudden shriveling of security values but to an excess of cherries and bottled "pop" which he had consumed during a visit to Maryland's Eastern Shore. His indisposition started crazy rumors around brokers' offices that he was gravely ill, that he had suffered a stroke of paralysis, that he was already dead and laid out (see p. 45). "Look at me!" he grinned to newsmen when he returned...
...Brussels, Demain printed President Roosevelt's horoscope. It found: an excess of idealism, a desire for too rapid evolution, great good judgment, troubles ahead for this month. After 1941 he would be in danger of accidents...
...Refiners must do likewise. Railroad and pipeline companies likewise must have substantial proof under oath that the oil they are asked to transport is legally produced, and must report monthly. ¶ Last week President Roosevelt had a slight cold. He had succeeded in losing two of the seven excess pounds he picked up on his vacation. ¶ Back from the London Conference, Assistant Secretary of State Moley, No. I Brain Truster, made a bee line to the White House to report to his chief. At the door newshawks upset him with questions about his expense account. London dispatches told...
...rashers of bacon, two slices of toast, orange juice. On his sedentary boating vacation, he ate quantities of baked beans, gained 7 Ib. (174 Ib. to 181 Ib.). When he returned to Washington, looking fit as a bull fiddle, he declared last week he was going to lose that excess weight at once-''by eating less...