Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talks when he lists. It is therefore difficult for him to understand the idle gossip which he continually hears about "law and order." He has seen and heard many evidences of the power of the law. A drunken, riotous crowd in a country tavern will be stilled by firm knocks at the door and the cry of "King's men and the Law." Famous and awesome are the "laws of the Medes and Persians." And once on a clear, balmy night in London the Vagabond himself saw a mad wight dragged off to the courts by a Bobby for stoning...
...election to make the outcome undeterminate. The Labor party, at present the largest faction in the House of Commons, is conceeded a chance for victory. Since the calming hand of MacDonald has been removed, the platform of the Laborites has become more radical. Now the party has announced its firm belief in socialism as the only real solution for all the evils caused by capitalism and unregulated competition. It proposes as a remedy governmental control of coal mines and immediate cancelation of all war debts...
...finds Actor Matthews at his best. Quietly he underplays rich lines (a practice known theatrically as "throwing 'em away"), discloses that he has received offers of help but prefers to let his firm go bankrupt, announces that he is going away because his life, his wife, his children and all young people "bore him a bit." "No, I'm mistaken," he corrects himself. "Infinitely...
...reiterated in his sure, firm voice. "Oh no, wages in the steel industry are not coming down...
Everyone who knows John Chipman ("Johnny") Farrar-and few literary people there are in the land who have never met him-knows how precocious he is. Remembering his early leaps & bounds, his friends last week were not really as surprised as they might have been when his small, young firm of Farrar & Rinehart, publishers since 1929, bought out potent Cosmopolitan Book Corp., publishers since 1914 and wholly owned by William Randolph Hearst. Long used by Mr. Hearst to make by-profits out of serials published in his magazines, Cosmopolitan was grandly energized last year and the book trade heard that...