Word: midriffs
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...midriff of yellow Saturn, behind its girdle of rings, an immense, glaring white sore, about 7,000 miles across, broke out last week. First to see it was Astronomer John Edwin Willis at the Naval Observatory in Washington. Although it was after midnight, he routed out the observatory's superintendent, who flashed the news to Harvard Observatory, whence it was relayed to observatories the world over. White spots have been descried on Saturn before, one on the equator in 1876, several in the northern hemisphere in 1903. Astronomers could not find out what produced them. Last week every device...
...moratorium was a midriff blow to general business confidence. On the New York Stock Exchange, both shares and bonds were sold down to the lowest prices of the year. A staggering rise of money in circulation to the highest point of the Depression was blamed chiefly on huge cash shipments to the Detroit area. European speculators neatly hitched news of the eight-day moratorium to the attempt on President-elect Roosevelt's life for a quick raid on the dollar. Francs and belgas shot aloft. A brief outflow of U. S. gold followed...
...almost three months Jose Melgar, who fired a bullet into the midriff of President Luis Sanchez Cerro (TIME, March 14), has sat in his cell under sentence of death, fear gnawing at his heart...
...annual report of BIZ or Bank für Internationalen Zahlungsausgleich, famed in English as BIS (Bank for International Settlements), in French as Bri (Banque des Reglements International-). When he stood up to report, Manhattan Banker Gates W. McGarrah, President of BIZ was seen to have eased his substantial midriff by undoing as usual the two bottom buttons of his vest. What President McGarrah had to do was to report a notable BIZ success and issue to the world an ominous warning which he hoped would produce action...
...turned up in more engaging fettle. He and his huge, long-boned Finance Minister, Pierre Etienne Flandin, not only pleased Scot MacDonald by the crystal lucidity of their plans for rescuing Danubia from near bankruptcy but provoked him at a midnight session over Scotch and cigars to roars of midriff mirth which did his morale a world of good. Facing newsfolk just before M. Tardieu dashed back to Paris, dignified Scot MacDonald beamishly confessed, "We did overflow a bit at times. I might say the Danube was in such full flood that it overflowed its banks. In fact, it would...