Word: fillips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action served to stiffen rail bond prices, give rail stocks a gentle fillip. Pennsylvania was reported ready to bolt the merger plan rather than suffer exile from New England. Big Four executives called a meeting for this week to determine their next step. But bets were that the Depression, which had brought Pennsylvania's Atterbury, B. & O.'s Willard, New York Central's Crowley* and C. & O.'s Bernet together, would be over before every passenger coach and freight car in the East bears the name of one of their systems...
...four prisoners were ushered down a hall and into the office of Governor Lawrence McCully Judd. To each he handed a paper commuting their sentences to the time already served. By telescoping ten years into one hour the Kahahawai case was thus closed with one final dramatic fillip...
...wage conference and I'm hopeful for a solution of the railroads difficulties." He explained that $200,000,000 would come from a wage cut which, with the $100,000,000 from increased freight rates, would pull the carriers through. The Willard optimism gave a hopeful fillip to rail securities...
When the Empress Eugénie hat reappeared cautiously last spring the style world took a guess. It was a saucy fillip to be followed by surprises. U. S. department store buyers, fashion reporters, newsgatherers, sweltering in a Paris hot spell, dodged traffic last week from the Place Vendôme to Etoile where the fashion houses are finding out the surprises. The Empress Eugénie hat was still there, low-crowned, point-brimmed, fitting the head like a piece of orange peel with curled edges. It flourished a provocative ostrich feather. Ostrich farmers on the French Riviera...
Rebound (RKO-Pathé). Playwright Philip Barry (in Paris Bound and Holi day) gave drawing-room comedy a new fillip by introducing into the speeches of his well-bred characters a form of "cuckoo humor"-causing them, in moments of emotional stress, to go into absurd monologs, parodying the attitudes and technique of serious fiction. Because Barry's characters were rich and well educated, it came to be believed that such gaiety was the height of sophistication. Author Donald Ogden Stewart is an old hand at this type of humor and he employed it in his play Rebound. Less...