Word: grips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomat. A diplomat without authority can mean Yes without committing anyone to anything, No without offending anyone, yet his answer may open the way to further understanding and help set the stage for negotiators in whom authority is vested. If the U. S. loses its grip on Debts as a club to force Disarmament, the fault will lie with President Hoover and Norman Davis. Conversely, if Debt pressure brings down armaments, the great credit will be wholly theirs...
There come times in the lives of men when a dark, blood-curdling murder mystery is apropos. Those who at the witching hour huddle by the fireside in wide-eyed horror over the ghastly crimes solved by Philo Vance, those who feel terror grip their hearts in an astringent grasp at the shriek of an assassinated courtesan, they will enjoy the "Phantom of Crestwood." It abounds in all the paraphernalia of state grisliness, madmen, midnight murders, death masks, mobsters, and money musk...
...Hoover campaign of 1932 will probably be long remembered for the extremes to which the President, justified or not, went in his effort to keep a grip on the Federal Government. At Des Moines he sent a shudder through the financial world by declaring that the U. S. had been "within two weeks" of going off the gold standard last winter. In New York he seriously predicted that a Democratic victory would "crack the timbers of the Constitution" and cause "grass to grow in the streets'' of many an industrial city. In his West Coast speech last week...
...Saga into following cheerfully at Author Galsworthy's heels wishes now that his leader would sit down and take a well-earned rest. Having finally, after several backward glances, parted from the Forsytes, Galsworthy has now taken up with the Cherrells. has fastened on them with a bulldog grip. Maid in Waiting began it; Flowering Wilderness continues what bids fair to be an over-lengthy serial. Dinny Cherrell, too young to wed in the first book, makes a bold bid for it this time. Unfortunately the swain she picks, one Wilfrid Desert, is far from being the kind...
...Wardensville, W. Va., Wilbur H. Long said to his children: "Now I'll show you how to skin the cat." He climbed a tree, "skinned the cat," lost his grip, fell on his head, died...