Word: frayed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...street fighting gradually subsided. A legless veteran inside the Government building loudly challenged the police to remove him. He was ignored. General Glassford withdrew his forces. The B. E. F. cooled off, recovered its head. Commander Waters, who had kept out of the fray, nervously declared: "The men got out of control. There's nothing...
That was all that was needed. Spitting on their hands, the Fascists moved in. Somebody threw a chair which knocked out a Communist. Somebody else slashed the face of neutral Social Democrat Jurgensen. Inkwells, water bottles, desk drawers, chairs, ledgers, broken table legs went into the fray. Neutral deputies fled for their lives, others marooned on the speakers' dais spent a frantic quarter of an hour ducking missiles and wringing their hands. Safe in their odds of 3 to 1, the Fascists soon drove the last Communist from the Chamber, spent the next half-hour triumphantly roaring...
Side show to the fight was a verbal fray last week between Board of Trade President Peter B. Carey and Chairman James Clifton Stone of the Farm Board. President Carey said that any six grain men could dispose of the Farm Board's surplus at good prices if given a chance, insisted that the Farm Board by selling wheat 5? lower at seaboard than in the interior has depressed the Liverpool price, aided importing nations at the expense of U. S. farmers...
...Bitterly leagued against him were the Smith and Garner forces, which, with "favorite son" votes, might yet constitute a veto of Governor Roosevelt's ambition. Groggy from such a factional fight, the convention would, as it did in 1924, turn to some outsider who had not figured in the fray. At Madison Square Garden the tired delegates went to West Virginia for their man, John William Davis. At the Chicago Stadium this year they might go, via Ohio, to the same State for a compromise native...
Last fortnight Loft and Pepsi-Cola answered with $7,000,000 worth of damage suits, charging Coca-Cola has maliciously attempted to break Pepsi-Cola's contracts, to hurt Loft's business (TIME, May 16). Last week the Mirror stores (operated by Loft) joined the fray and brought suits for $1,250,000 in damages. A million dollars was asked for general interference with the Loft-Mirror-Pepsi-Cola contracts, charging that Coca-Colans had bribed Mirror employes, had attacked Mirror's stock, had interfered with customers, had stolen goods. The second suit for $250,000 was because of Coca...