Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wallace Beery alone is excepted from all this criticism. He was immense. His comically stupid face was never for one moment marred by the slightest ray of intelligence. His ample army pants were held up by a rope around the waist, giving to their lower portions a curious baggy appearance suggestive of small boys in grammar school. He was forever waddling about through the sets on mischief bent, for all the world like a fat sow hunting out choice bits of garbage Without him the picture would be a dud, with him it was able to make this reviewer disgrace...
...that which came to a head in America, England, Japan and all countries with a steady currency in 1920 and 1921. Prices do not fall as they should in order to correspond to the purchasing power of the consumers and to start a new economic development on a lower price level. Much of the credit recently granted as working capital is still misused to sustain the high prices. Too much of the small amount of available working capital has been invested in very old or very new plants and has become worthless. But the cleaning up process, the exclusion...
Later the royal party was driven to the great Church of Ste. Gudule, half way up the precipitous slope which ascends from the lower town to the royal and aristocratic quarter. At the church, Monsignor de Greve, representing Cardinal Mercier,* welcomed Prince Leopold in the name of the ecclesiastical authorities of Belgium. Finally the royal motors snorted up the last and steepest part of the hill, traversed the famed avenue once sacred to the residences of courtiers, brought Prince Leopold "home"- to what is considered by many architects "the handsomest modern royal palace in Europe...
...more safe while grasping the pommels of a sidesaddle. These muscles, as everyone should know, are the pectineus (comblike) and the adductores magnus, longus and brevis (the great, long and short pullers-in) and connect the femur (the thigh bone, the longest in the body) to the front lower ridges of the sacrum. They adduct the thighs powerfully and are especially used in horse exercise, the saddle being grasped between the knees by their contraction. (The gracilis, the most superficial muscle of the inner aspect of the thigh, is relatively weak.) Nerves concerned are the anterior femoral cutaneous, the lumboinguinal...
...what to arbitrate is before the new coal conference as it was before the old. The Markle plan was, in the former case, rejected by the miners because it provided for arbitration of wages alone. They feared a conspiracy to lower wages. Equally unacceptable to the operators was the suggestion of John L. Lewis that prices, profits, and middle-man activity ought also to be regulated. Frightful visions of future bungling investigations by miscellaneous commissions arose in the minds of the owners, and they decline to consider the idea...