Word: made
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less humorous passages Comrade Litvinov made three points...
Later, when Ambassador Gibson offered to the world in the name of President Hoover and Secretary Stimson what seemed to Mrs. Litvinov basically her husband's plan, she made up her mind that "contemptible" was the right adjective, "bounder" the right noun...
...note, but in a gala speech before the Soviet central executive committee, to which he invited the whole Moscow diplomatic corps. Such a chance to make game of Messrs. Hoover and Stimson, whose Gibson had humiliated him last spring, might not soon come again, and Comrade Litvinov made the most of it. Stomachs quaked with mirth as he told in droll fashion how Statesman Stimson had called on all the 53 Kellogg Treaty nations to second his note, and concluded amid guffaws: ''I have just received a cablegram saying that Panama-even great Panama-stands with Mr. Stimson...
...pipe it hissed across the border to feed iron and steel furnaces at Monterrey, "The Pittsburgh of Mexico." Pioneer in international public utility, United Gas Co. of Texas, already has contracts calling for natural gas exports of 18 million cubic feet daily through their new pipe. No niggards, they made expensive gas whoopee in Monterrey one night last week, lit a mighty "Inaugural Beacon" which spurted up house high from the Public Square...
What Christian Scientists have objected to in all but the authorized life of Mrs. Eddy (The Life of Mary Baker Eddy by Sibyl Wilbur) are alleged misstatements, "obnoxious," libelous, about the founder of Christian Science. Author Dakin's book says that Mary Baker Eddy plagiarized, took morphine, made no miraculous cures...