Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note the time he started; getting out of his chair, he uncovered the alarm clock and noted the time, wound it tight and recovered it. Filling in the time, Vag thought a footnote was needed and moved down to the bottom of the page. "Ibid" he wrote. He would fix that up later...
Antitrust. Monopolists were having a rough time. In a Cleveland federal court, Timken Roller Bearing Co. was convicted of conspiring with its British and French affiliates to fix world prices of roller bearings and restrict competition. In Manhattan, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., National Lead Co. and three individuals were fined a total of $43,000 (the maximum) for operating a worldwide cartel in titanium pigments. The companies were already under court order to license titanium production at a reasonable royalty...
Buttons to Fix. By the time Garrick reached fame, the English stage was in a condition of happy disorder. Shakespeare's plays had been murderously rewritten; King Lear had a happy ending and Macbeth had been refitted with low-comedy witches. While one actor rumbled through his speeches, another might nod to his friends in the audience, fix his buttons or ostentatiously spit on the stage. Audiences were noisy and quarrelsome, and privileged dandies would stand in the wings loudly gossiping. Occasionally, a drunken beau would stray on to the stage to kiss the leading lady...
...thought the quickest way to get it was to ask Arabian American Oil Co., which held the rich Saudi Arabian oil concession, to fork over an extra $6,000,000 a year. Aramco balked. But in far-off New York was a man who thought he could fix things...
...heraldic windows, horses, racing-cars, motorcycles and miniature railroads. His children were so terrified of him that once when his little daughter was prattling innocently about "the fertility of rabbits" she noticed one of her father's blue eyes appear around the corner of his morning Times and fix her with a look so deadly that she nearly fell out of her chair. The War Office regarded Doyle with much the same horror when, as early as 1900, he bombarded them with demands for reforms that seemed absurd to British Blimps: rifles (instead of sabers and lances) for British...