Word: flasco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plain fact of the matter is that repeal has been pretty much of a flasco; liquor is only slighly cheaper, the speakeasies were just as good as the hotels and restaurants that have replaced them, and in many cases the quality of liquor has deteriorated. All this is due to the fact that no real attempt has been made to regulate effectively the liquor industry. With the lone exception of Pennsylvania, no state has in operation a really workable system of control, which keeps prices down and excludes illegal and fraudulent groups; nor has the Federal government been able...
Since Dolifuss's appeal to the League of Nations has been the flasco that every, one expected it to be he has recourse to out one measure left and that is to ally himself with some power or group of powers hostile to Germany; here his strongest support may be expected from Italy and France, although I should not be surprised to see England adopt an aggressive policy toward Germany before either of the two former powers do. This seemingly illogical behavior by the nation whose vital interests are the least affected may be explained by the fact that...
...produce more children who are well on their way to an equally bad end. This same doleful tale was told in "He Loved a Woman," which was at the University a few weeks ago. It was a fused picture of the Armour rise and collapse and the Insull flasco. Always there is painted with vivid morbidity the panorama of where wealth collects and men decay...
...Lincoln Steffans' autobiography there is an excellent parallel. He had the belief that ignoring communists was more effective than preventing their outbursts of self-expression. His theory was tested one May Day when he presided over the New York police force in Union Square. The demonstration was a flasco. The communists had not found any protesting policemen; thus one of the duller May Days ended without casualties. This should give Dr. Robinson an idea of a way to punish recalcitrant editors...
...they trudge through several thousand feet of film which broke at odd intervals throughout the evening. Clark it seems had had an unlucky break in his first marriage so, although he loved Joan very much and she loved him, he would not run the risk of a second flasco. They therefore settle upon a very satisfactory, if unoriginal method of solving what, save in Hollywood, is a very perplexing problem. But the full tide of true love is turned back by the flotsam of New York politics--as occasionally happens--and Joan proves her love by running out on Clark...