Word: halt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stubborn as King Canute, defiant as Joshua, brave as Horatius he stood there a true son of the-British bulldog. The Brighton Express roared down at him 50 m.p.h., came to a halt with great screaming of brakes. Out tumbled the engineer, pale beneath the grease on his face...
...night long before the appointed day the drums beat slowly, mournfully while the Hopi fast. In the morning the drumbeats quicken. Finally appear twelve priests, their bodies painted, their faces stained grotesquely. Heads down, they dance toward the door of the kiva, then back, then forward again until they halt before the door guarded by eight old, ash-smeared priests. There is a moment of silence and suspense. Then slowly the door is raised. Through it comes a painted Hopi holding a writhing rattlesnake in his teeth. The snake is held by the middle, head and tail dangling free. (Veteran...
...beautify the Federal City (TIME. May 6, 1929). The plot was to be converted into a park. Wreckers had knocked the walls out of the buildings when the B. E. F. began to arrive last May. Brigadier General Pelham Glassford. Washington's long-legged, kindly police chief, arranged to halt demolition, have veterans quartered in the skeletonized buildings. With Congress gone and the Bonus fight over, the Treasury sought to evict the veterans and start work again. Four times 200-odd veterans were ordered out. Four times they refused to budge...
Suddenly and unexpectedly last week the Senate Banking & Currency Committee voted to halt its probe of Wall Street. No decision was made on whether it would start again in the autumn but politicians know that most such investigations when once allowed to lapse are seldom revived. The Committee returned to Representative La Guardia his little brown trunkful of papers relating to Wall Street and the Press. Only a week ago $50.000 had been received to continue the investigation until March 4, 1933 but in Washington it was guessed that that much was needed to cover a deficit already incurred...
...turn would be lent out to commercial customers seeking cash. As the quantity of currency in circulation increased its value would decline and the prices of commodities would climb until they reached the 1926 level. Then the Reserve would stop buying Federal securities, the fall of the dollar would halt, prices would stabilize and everybody would be happy...