Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speaking, have never heard the name of that worthy, honest, unassuming man, President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland. On the other hand the world has heard too much about the eccentricities (slanderously said "to amount to madness") of the great Polish soldier-statesman whom only Poles are temperamentally equipped to obey and understand. Marshal Josef Pilsudski. A dictator with a small "d," he refuses to be President, detests the Premiership, publicly calls the Polish Parliament a prostitute when he can think of no fouler epithet and rules Poland through a Cabinet clique called "the Pilsudski Colonels...
...unless they got relief. In Wisconsin, Democratic Governor Schmedeman, after receiving a delegation of farm strikers, issued a proclamation calling upon circuit judges to hold all mortgage foreclosures in abeyance until the Legislature could declare a moratorium. Some judges promised to comply; others claimed they were legally powerless to obey the proclamation. At Grand Meadow, Minn. a cousin of President Hoover luckily got out of debt by giving his farm to the bank. Two great railroads in the East were reported close to receivership. In a decade Federal bankruptcies had jumped from 23,000 to 65,000 per year, with...
Actress Cornell, in staking her queenhood last week on kingly love, Roman honor and Andre Obey, did it with both eyes open. She believes the part is a test for her. If she succeeds, she wants sometime to do Lady Macbeth and Cleopatra...
...Strangler") Lewis, recognized as champion outside New York State, finally lost his title on a foul to Canadian Henri De Glane. He then began persistently to challenge Champion Londos. Last summer, the New York State Athletic Commission ordered Champion Londos to wrestle Champion Lewis. When Champion Londos failed to obey, the Commission awarded his title to Champion Lewis on condition that Champion Lewis defend it first against fat Jack Sherry of Alaska, next against lumbering Ray Steele. By defeating Steele last week, Strangler Lewis became positively the only world's wrestling champion...
When the Vagabond goes to the Music. Building this afternoon at four-thirty to sing medieval church music, he will rejoice to imitate the careless abandon with which the uncontrollable monks sang their parts. He will feel deep gratitude to the men whose refusal to obey the binding rules of the church made possible the development of the materials of modern music and prepared the way immediately for Palestinian and Bach. He will be grateful, too, that the discordance of the medieval descants will keep his neighbor from noticing it too easily when the Vagabond sings...