Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is a dramatic moment [at Radcliffe]; one Saturday morning when a miserable young woman in the second row cannot instantly give the meaning of the word "as," fired at her by "Kitty," who has just burst into the room like a bombshell. While she tries to muster breath for a reply, "Kitty"-overshoes just removed going on again-scorchingly informs us that he cannot afford to waste an hour with a group of girls who apparently know nothing about Shakspere. The bang of the door upon his angry retreat is an effective spanking administered to our abysmal ignorance. After...
...Warfare in the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. (TIME, Oct. 21 et seq.), was renewed when supporters of ousted-President Alphonso Lynn Ivey tried to oust dictator-like Director George S. Kemp. At a special stockholders' meeting they failed to muster a quorum of 365,875 shares of common and both classes of preferred stock. They did have a quorum of the 7% prior preferred, but Vice President Gustavus Ober adjourned the meeting. Still displeased, the Ivey faction held a rump session, debated what to do next. Dictator Kemp held his saddle by a margin of 62,709 shares...
...Eccles Bill became the Glass Bill. Said the Gentleman from Virginia: "It's a damn sight better bill than the original." Said Banking & Currency Chairman Fletcher who generally disagrees with Senator Glass: "It's a fairly good compromise and better than I expected." Even Governor Eccles managed to muster something more than faint praise for the new draft. Walter Lippmann was inspired to write...
Benjamin F. Wright, Jr., Assistant Professor of Government and Tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics, will be Acting House Muster during Dean Murdock's absence. Wright is at present a resident tutor in Leverett House...
...last, . with what dignity he could muster, President Eduard Springmann of the People's Court ordered the State to pay the cost of the trial and freed Simple Richard Roiderer with these words: "He has only himself to blame. He has gone about indulging in negative critisim of everything pertaining to the new Germany, and he has gravely abused his guest privileges in Germany. Just imagine what would have happened to a German who had done in America what this man has been doing here...