Word: molding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Starr Jordan became president in 1885 of Indiana University at Bloomington, Ind. Aged 34, he was then Youngest U. S. College President. He began at once to reorganize his inland, politically controlled institution, to cajole dollars from lackadaisical Indiana legislators. He put in practice a then radical notion: to mold education to the student rather than to force the student into a tight educational jacket...
...living is predicated on democracy and pacifism. We propose to make the third Reich one of healthy and glorious nationalism?a state for the people, and shall put an end to the process of national disintegration. We shall accomplish this with legal and constitutional means, and shall mold our state into that form which we deem necessary...
...this not too sprightly, not too spiteful burlesque, Author Shepard chaffs the (now temporarily defunct) smalltime Wall Street operator who makes a few lucky killings in a bull market and fancies himself a financier. On the side and from time to time he also chaffs men of less strawy mold, notably Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell (National City) for his extremely bullish utterances, his apparent unawareness of what was going on, just before the late great stockmarket crash. Otto Munson, umbrella-rib manufacturer, sells his business for $20,000 and buys everything he can on margin. Unable to go wrong...
...London visit King Alfonso XIII of Spain ate his meal in his favorite Spanish restaurant in Cavendish Square, dined on an annual dish, "Salad of the Gardens of Spain." Concomitants: cold sliced chicken reposing on lemon-yellow hearts of lettuce, criss-crossed with ribbons of pimiento, topped by a mold of fruit salad-sliced oranges, large green Malaga grapes, thin strips of pineapple- all chilled and jelled in fruit juices. Gourmet Alfonso then finished the "Gardens" off with cubes of melon and succulent strawberries soaked in rare old sherry, enjoyed himself thoroughly...
Signor Benito Mussolini is content with even less, partly because Il Duce is the only head of a State able and up-to-date enough to realize that be his pen he can advertise his country abroad and mold public opinion in his favor. He alone both rules and writes...