Word: looser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult question to answer," replied Sir Charles, "but I should say that roughly the farther you get from here the looser the morals are." (Explosions of loud laughter...
Early this year the tightest wad who was ever Governor of the Bank of France, fusty "abnormally honest" M. Clement Moret, gave way to that slightly looser wad, sandy-mustached M. Jean Tannery, amid uneasy rumors of "inflation" (TIME, Jan. 14). Since then France has changed cabinets and new Premier Pierre Laval is not tinged as was old Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin with any suspicion of wanting to perpetrate a New Deal âl'americaino. With Parliament adjourned and the new Cabinet embarked on a drastic program of balancing the budget and reducing the cost of life's necessities...
...Students' League but while Grace finished her studies in Paris and Italy, Marion wandered to Mexico. Last year both did frescoes for the Michoacan State capital in Morelia. A faster worker than her sister, Marion last week started on her third wall. Her peasants, a little looser in the joints than Grace's, bring to market bags of papaya, cashew fruit, guava, yams, cabbages, carrots and bananas. Among Fruits & Vegetables Marion includes a few fish and a great deal of sugar cane, bundled like the Fascist emblem. On Marion's second wall the peasants...
...corrected only over a space of years, so deeply is the spoils system rooted in democratic countries. Because the odds are heavily against the young civil servant's being able to rise to an executive position, as is the case under the existing arrangement, it is natural that the looser, more pliable hierarchies in private industry attract so many college graduates...
...gloves of 18-carat spun gold; Maggy Rouff showed evening gowns with a zipper down the front from neck to hem "for moonlight bathing." Ruffling through their notebooks, buyers reported the following definite trends for 1933 summer fashions: ¶ Waists will be lower, lines will be definitely straighter and looser. Sleeves are moderately full, shoulders continue high, wide & handsome. The dramatic Elsa Schiaparelli shows Japanese sleeves with artificial shoulder stiffening. Dress lines will accent the vertical this year...