Word: fillip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot of Bed-Fellows. The switch is legally accomplished, but the play's title is, of course, never realized. Such things may happen but you cannot stage them. After much raucous effort at humor and suspense, Bed-Fellows ends where it began, without a single inventive fillip to distinguish it from a score of other mediocrities...
...round off his diplomatic debut, Hustler Dawes added this final fillip: "I consider that the time of old-fashioned diplomats is over and that people like myself, who are not careerists, have an opportunity for settling the affairs of the world...
...give the affair a final news fillip, Joseph Edward Sheedy, executive vice president of the Chapman company, announced that the Leviathan and later the ten other U. S. Lines vessels purchased from the U. S. (TIME, Feb. 18), would sell liquor outside the 12-mile limit. To support his action, Mr. Sheedy advanced the opinion of the U. S. Supreme Court in Cunard v. Mellon, 1923, in which it was decided that the 18th Amendment applied only to the territorial waters of the U. S. for domestic as well as foreign ships. It is under this decision that foreign ships...
...Power Trust. He will let that take care of itself or let Secretary West take care of it when the Insurgent Republicans and Democrats bring it to head. It is not Nominee Hoover's election. He will let the Nominee take care of that unless a fatherly fillip seems necessary in New York or somewhere. It is not the deficit, which is a comparatively simple departmental matter, considering its predicted size (94 millions on a total budget of 3.7 billions...
...however, was seen rather in its probable effects on other wage-earners than in the walk-out itself. Many workers are admittedly underpaid and a general move for increases is now envisaged, as was sometime ago predicted by John Maynard Keynes, British economist. This move has already received a fillip by the Federal Government which recently raised the salaries of its employes. In this connection other able economists pointed out that Germany is short-sighted in that she does not grasp that raising the standard of wages also raises the standard of living and promotes internal prosperity by increasing...