Word: limped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sailed for Europe one night last week, a group of know-it-alls in New York started one of Depression's dreariest stories. They said the concert business was dead. Even an artist like Kreisler was unable to get engagements. He was returning to Europe with his purse limp and his pride hurt...
...business. He showed that while Wexler was reporting an income of $8,000 and paying a tax of $10.76. he was living royally off the profits of his breweries, was investing large sums in hotel ventures. By the time Prosecutor Dewey was through with him Wexler was hollow-eyed, limp, twitchy...
...Jose's wealthiest department store owner. On the San Mateo bridge across a corner of San Francisco Bay, the car stopped. The three men got out. One of them from behind smashed Brooke Hart's skull with a brick. Together they bound his limp body with baling wire, stole his wallet, lifted him over the bridge railing, heaved him into San Francisco...
...breakfast consisting, of all things, "of a bowl of potato soup with whipped cream." If Kanzler Dollfuss prefers this kind of morning repast, his taste is unique and, therefore, news. But is TIME sure of its potatoes? . . . TIME generalizes, as it is sometimes wont to do, as to "limp handshake of most Austrians." Let me assure TIME that limply shaking hands is equally bad form in Vienna as it is in Keokuk, Iowa. An Edelweiss to you for "Eve of Renewal," barring minor details, the best write-up of contemporary Austrian conditions I have seen. R. H. STIEPOCK...
...physical smallness combined with political sagacity. His clothes are neat, impeccably brushed but of slightly archaic cut that smacks of the wheat fields and the Bauernbund. His most noticeable characteristics are his smile, which is constant, and the strength of his fingers. Like most Austrians he is a politely limp handshaker, but to hearty knuckle-grinders he can return a grip of steel. In the Dollfuss character, nothing is so important as his ardent, almost fanatical Catholicism. Each morning, before going to the same big sunny office in the Chancellery that Prince Metternich used, he prays for half an hour...