Word: mischiefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many an analyst believed it was the Strong policy of easy money which led to the stock market's frenzied speculation. And many a bull, in Manhattan and in Chicago, damned bitterly the Federal Reserve Bank's efforts to undo, by raising the rediscount rate, the mischief it had done. Most bullish of all bulls is the Journal. Most hateful, therefore, is the present high rediscount rate...
...SILENT HOUSE-Chinese mischief in London in which an idol shows his clutching claws (TIME...
...retort professional was given "to the world" by the Los Angeles Graphic (society weekly). Whether or not the world heard, the Graphic made sure that Geologer Willis would hear. Of him it said, with good-natured Californian venom: "God must have tipped him off ... the incondite ravings of a mischief maker. ... It is generally believed that Dr. Willis' service to the fire insurance underwriters was substantially rewarded...
...have become for pay hireling agents of mere mischief." The jury, having deliberated 14 minutes, brought in a verdict of guilty; and soon the Lord Chief Justice imposed upon two makers of "mere mischief" sentences of 10 years imprisonment each. Commenting on the trial, Attorney General Sir Douglas Hogg vigorously stressed his belief that only part of a general Russian-subsidized spy system had been uncovered. "Unluckily," said he "we have not been able to gather in our net all those concerned, though I trust the result of this trial will make others think before they pursue their dangerous...
...Tenor Schipa took Verdi's libation of tunes and tears, poured it out, an acceptable sacrifice to Emotion. Muzio, as Violetta, erred, atoned and died. Schipa, as Alfred, loved loudly and blindly while Richard Bonelli, benign as the father, rubbed his hands and looked on at the mischief of his own making. The 3,500 in the Auditorium took delight in Muzio's costumes, in the elaborate sets, in the new ballet with incidental dances by Vechslav Swoboda, in boxholder's emeralds, gowns. The ten million got little of the glamour, missed little of the fine, florid...