Word: neatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican side of the Philadelphia picture things are less neat and simple. Because of the confusion within that party no less than 19 Republicans filed as candidates for Mayor. Of these, eleven remained on the ballot for next week's primary. Compromise was impossible because none of the three leading candidates would give an inch for party unity. Sheriff Richard Weglein, for 25 years boss of "Brewerytown," thought he ought to be Mayor because he is "the only real Republican of the lot." The Penrose faction of the Republican machine threw its support to City Treasurer WillB Hadley for Mayor...
Such a maneuver may be "neat," but Dutchmen fearfully wondered last week how often the Queen & Colijn may have to repeat a master stroke involving one-fifth of the nation's gold reserve. Amid Depression's typhoon, as the Dutch guilder is threatened in crisis after crisis, The Netherlands Bank frantically hoists its discount rate to 6% during the storms to attract as much gold as possible, then hastily reefs it down to 2½% during the lulls to give Dutch business the benefit of "cheap money." Inevitably such desperate sailing scares the passengers half out of their...
...piously whimpered: "Evelyn did it all differently than she promised. When she told me how she cut him up, it just made me sick. The way we talked it over, Evelyn was to put Erv to sleep, strangle him and throw him in the lake." Headline: PAID FOR A NEAT "LAKE JOB," IS HER PLAINT...
...Regretted that the first woman M. P. remains so incurably trivial a headline-snatcher when Lady Astor, showing the neat ankle of a Langhorne of Virginia, introduced the topic of her openwork silk stockings. After publicly regretting that she has to import them from the U. S. and pay a stiff British duty, the Noble Lady was informed by Dr. Edward L. Burgin, Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade, that she can "Buy British" openwork silk stockings...
...Confident that he was pleasing Lady Astor, Dr. Burgin then drew further attention to her neat ankle by remarking, "I shall be glad to present the Noble Lady with a British-made pair of the best openwork silk stockings, if she will promise to wear them in this House...