Word: float
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Petting in the Park," "I've Got to Sing a Torch Song," "Forgotten Men." Dance Director Busby Berkeley's most decorative notion was a "shadow waltz" with a chorus in triple-decked hoop skirts carrying phosphorescent violins. The stage presently darkens so that the violins appear to float about under their own power, finally waltz themselves into the outline of an immense bull fiddle. Good shot: Guy Kibbee's alarm when he looks in a mirror and detects a resemblance between his own face and that of a chorus girl's Pekinese, which he is holding...
...France, the French Government has a budget deficit to hold its own with any in the world, and must raise 5,000,000,000 francs by July 1. Another internal loan would be a risky business. To charm the francs from Jean Frenchman's famed sock to float the last one, the Government was forced to offer 4½ bonds at 98½ with the costly promise to redeem at 150. France therefore gets the money she needs from Britain, and at nearly half the interest rates she would have had to pay at home. Second reason...
...Locket and Ringleader Wells behind the blacksmith shop. A guard intervenes. Locket hysterically brains him with an ax. There is a general jailbreak. Red and Locket hide in a nearby barn. A queer element of Tom Sawyerism develops as the youthful criminals plan to make a raft. "We could float all the way down the Mississippi," says Locket. "Hell," says Red. "We could float all the way to California!" But they float nowhere. Frightened farm boys shoot Locket. Red is brought back to the institution, prepared for transfer to the penitentiary. "Did Robert have a good word for me before...
...upper deck to float free of a sinking ship...
...mere hope because prices and indices had shown a little upturn. There was the beginning of the attitude: what now if not inflation? Either inflation because commodity prices would be turned upward by natural and governmental stimuli; or inflation because the Government is committed to spending billions, must float bond issues to reopen banks, save mortgagors, provide relief and a dozen other costly enterprises. Or inflation because the Government might reduce the gold content of the dollar. Or simply inflation in expectation of inflation. Inflation or inflation or inflation. What other alternative...