Word: flare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Very courteous were the Senators to their guests. Very affable Mr. Morgan, wholly unlike his dictatorial father who gave blunt answers to the Pujo Committee 20 years ago. Very earnest-every inch the prosecutor-was Mr. Pecora. Very courtly Morgan's learned counsel. Mr. Davis. Only flare-ups of anger were between testy Senator Glass and Mr. Pecora over the course which the inquiry was taking. Mr. Glass, long a severe critic of our bankers, grew impatient with the mass of curiosity-questions not pertinent to the banking questions. Senator most critical of Morgan was Mr. Couzens...
Other communicable diseases have shown decreases or insignificant increases. Nonetheless, health officials last week feared no measles epidemic. They consider the disease purely local. It may flare up in one neighborhood, not touch another. For example, California last week showed a 93% measles increase over the same week last year; New York increased 86%, New Jersey 435%. Other States showed correspondingly great decreases: Oregon 66%, Pennsylvania 17%, Ohio...
...Also it has been our experience that the man who receives at least one honor grade during the regular college year or who is only slightly deficient in his first year of college has a better chance of success than one who has not shown anywhere the flare of ability. Therefore in readmitting Freshmen for 1932-33 a more careful scrutiny of previous records of applicants has been made. Also in severing the connection of certain Freshmen last June the Board definitely discouraged those with the lowest records from seeking readmission and advised them to turn to something else than...
Special Message. The French default produced in Congress a brief flare-up of reprisal talk?$5,000 passport fees, bans on French securities. President Hoover, more calm, waited four days to see if France would change from nonpayment to delayed payment. When she did not he sent a special message to Congress, reviewing the debt situation and outlining a general plan of action he was prepared to initiate, regardless of legislative authority. He would promptly link debts, disarmament and world economics, granting no reductions on the first without compensating advantages to the U. S. on the other two. Because such...
...still glamorous days when Leicester's barge moved down the Thames in the evening, when a bribed servant brought a certain ring to Elizabeth on the morning of Essex's execution. On winter nights, with a sheet of snow on the streets, and the wind making the torches flare, a group of roisterers would come back from an afternoon at the Globe, or bear-baiting on the Bank side, or even from an excursion among the wenches who haunted Cheapside. Past the bridge, with its houses jutting over the water, and the traitors' heads stuck up on poles, they hurry...