Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After weeks of argument and negotiation(TIME, Sept. 19 et seq.), President Gaston Doumergue signed a decree granting to the U. S. most-of the low tariff rates which U. S. trade enjoyed prior to the recent French tariff revision. The decree will be effective only until such time as a permanent commercial treaty between the two countries can be negotiated, and this depends upon the findings of the U. S. Tariff Commission's enquiry into the possibility of reducing the existing duties on French silk, textiles, perfumes and other deluxe articles. It is not thought possible that...
...were prepared last week for the wide woman draped in metal cloth who fluttered on at the Palace, bowed low as if for great applause, smiling. Now, at 62, there was little voice, little vitality for a Troubadour song, for d'Hardelet's "Lesson of the Fan," for "Swanee River" and "The Spirit of the Air," words and music by herself, dedicated to Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. "L'amour est une oiseau rebelle. . . ." The customers at the Palace sat alert for the "Habanera" of the World's Greatest Carmen, but the high comb would not stay...
...there is no tree. And the confettl battle in the Stadium on the same day is but the mild aftermath of the great struggle around the tree. In the space which now composes the Bollis-Harvard-Idonel-Bolden Chapel quadrangle grew the tree, and around it sat in a low grand stand the ladies, who cheered as vociferously then as now. Ten feet up the tree a wreath of flowers encircled the trunk, and to get a small bouquet of these flowers was the dearest ambition of every Senior. Caps and gowns were cast aside, and the oldest possible clothes...
...annual meeting of the directors of the College Entrance Examination Board this month was productive of two conclusions that evoke interest in those who are not too busy practising on the high burdles to remember the low ones. For the first time in its career the treasury of the Board shows a deficit, due to the increased cost of examination. The fee remains $10, while the cost per candidate of examination has risen from $7.98 to $11.11. The deficit is to be made up by the sale of the Board's publications, a possible increase in the fee, and most...
BROADWAY?Light hearts, low minds, two murders in Manhattan after midnight...