Word: fored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Issues, of course, were local but the general issue of National Government (i. e. rule by Conservatives under an outcast Laborite Prime Minister) was well to the fore. From the standpoint of the Briton in the street there is something tricky about the "National Government." He had a chance last week to approve or reject the able trick that has given Great Britain a balanced budget, revived her industry by tariffs and made bankers and blue bloods feel safe. What would be the verdict...
...more to it than gravy. In England he nearly starved, but he learned the language and what little there was to know about English cookery. His peregrinations over Europe in pursuit of his muse were interrupted by military service, but even in the army his talents came to the fore, got him the pleasant billet of cook to a general. A civilian again, he married, took his bride to the U. S. to set up for himself. In Lynbrook, Long Island, he started a tiny restaurant which soon became a famed resort of Manhattan gourmets. J. P. Morgan Sr., Diamond...
...most prominent, yet almost the least known scientist in the world has at last overcome his aversion to publicity to permit a collection of various speeches and papers of his to be published in this book. It is avowedly an effort on the part of a friend to fore stall any misguided attacks on the personality of Einstein such as those to which most prominent men are subject. The purpose has been amply filled for we now have a record of his important acts and they reveal the character of the man as clearly as would a series of letters...
...right.Trying to save a goal, West's Back, Elmer Boeseke, hit a shot toward the sideboards which caromed off his pony's fore foot straight through his own goal for the first score. The equality between young, lively Easterners and heavier, more experienced Westerners grew increasingly apparent thereafter but the enormity of Elmer Boeseke's mistake was revealed when the game was over. The Scoreboard on the clubhouse showed that the side which had made fewer goals had paradoxically won game & series, East 14, West...
...Reid went out on the street and solicited advertising for two months be fore assuming an office in the Tribune. She then took charge as advertising director, knowing how to whip her staff into a lather of energy they never suspected in themselves. In 1924 the Tribune absorbed James Gordon Bennett's Herald, which the late unlamented Frank A. Munsey had run into the ground, and Mrs. Reid acquired new responsibilities. At 52 she is still advertising director, firing her sales force with 9 a. m. pep talks every Monday and keeping them stoked through Saturday noon. Though...