Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automakers, who willynilly have begun to face their relation with the union as a practical operating problem rather than an emotional issue, 3) for John L. Lewis, the prestige of whose C. I. O. is shaken when one of its key unions gets in trouble...
...took the stand, cocky and glib. When defense lawyers asked him what had happened to Mrs. Littlefield, who was not mentioned in the Carroll indictment, young Dwyer replied that Carroll had strangled her with Dwyer's belt in a remote spot in the hills. "I turned my face away," said Paul Dwyer...
TIME derived its explanation (TIME, July 25, p. 4) from able lexicographical authority, but in the face of such a common-sense consensus acknowledges its misguidance. Thanks to Readers Parker and Hooper for two more bacony phrases...
Motionless in a wheelchair, swathed in blankets, his tired old face shaded by a broad fedora. Major Andrew Summers Rowan, 81, last week listened to a seven-gun salute in his honor on the lawn of Letterman General Hospital at San Francisco's Presidio (U. S. Army post). He also listened to a flowery speech by a gentleman in smoked glasses, Consul José Zarza of the Cuban Republic. The speech said that Major Rowan had performed a feat that was "an everlasting lesson" which "covered your army with glory," a deed for all to "love, admire and emulate...
...being given monopoly franchises to operate utilities in Nanking and vicinity, many Chinese mines and virtually all inland shipping on the lower Yangtze. Owners of the properties were advised by Japan's Chinese puppets to turn over their properties in exchange for stock in the new firms, or face outright confiscation within ten days. Dispatches from Peking reported that in Nanking, Chinese peddlers are now employed in large numbers by Japanese narcotic jobbers to peddle opium and heroin openly at cut rates in paper packets selling for as little as 5? Chinese (1?). This is against...