Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...southwest held cotton around 12? per Ib. The Mississippi Plant Board reported an average count of 119 boll weevils to the acre, against 75 the week before, 323 year ago. Prospects of a reduction in breeding stock and mounting feed prices boosted topnotch hog prices to the best level since October ($5 per cwt.), cattle prices to the highest since September 1932 ($10.25 per cwt.). But few if any of the gaunt animals that shuffled into the stockyards last week qualified for these prime prices...
Very cross was everyone with French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou last week. Fortnight ago he did his level best to bring the dying Disarmament Conference to a quick and painless end by refusing to consider any plan that would allow Germany even partial disarmament, by refusing to admit Germany's reentrance to the Conference until French security had been guaranteed. The President of the Conference, "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, mildest of men, looked straight at France's chief spokesman last week and snapped...
...always admired those painters who scale the precipitous Lowell House tower. But they don't really mind the job. It's romantic. Or at least there must be some attraction in the work because we caught one cheerful fellow, dangling from a rope some hundred feet above sea level, whistling away gaily. What was he whistling? You've guessed it. "The Man on the Flying Trapeze...
Last week big-hearted William Meringer was in Dublin with his wife and two children, doing his level best to repay destiny. He told Dublin relief workers to round up 700 poor gossoons and colleens. These he sat down to a great dinner in the City Hall. The piece de resistance: hasenpfeffer...
...from the Army each year because of mental derangements. Most common cause is dementia praecox. The large majority of cases arise in the Army's overseas departments-the Philippines, Hawaii, Canal Zone. Surgeon General Patterson blames the tropics: "Residence in the tropic regions at or near the sea level is unfavorable to the health of Northern races. Among the things which may exercise deleterious effects may be cited . . . the temperature . . . the humidity . . . exposure to actinic rays . . . absence of normal sources of companionship and amusement, resulting in mental depressions . . . lack of exercise and excessive indulgence in food, alcohol and venery...