Word: obtaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although imprisonment for debt has been abolished, creditors may still obtain judgments and if the debtor does not obey the court's order to pay he may be imprisoned for contempt of court. Debtors unable to pay can generally avoid such imprisonment by going into bankruptcy...
Unable to obtain an honest-to-God "lariat" in St Louis, Buster Estes, of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Post No. 43, used an ordinary sash cord seldom missed. Madame Schumann-Hemk held her hands up as he approached laughingly said, "No, no, no, no." He obligingly refrained. Many a youngster ran along at his side cried, "Rope me, mister." Most of them were gleefully satisfied...
...never been requested or endorsed by the League, and occurred prior to sanction activity. If it, too, was electioneering, II Duce was prepared to stomach a good deal, but he blazed at Sir Eric that from London there was a minimum which Italy also must obtain...
...French Talking Films Committee will present "Sans Famille" after the novel by Hector Malot, produced by Marc Allegret, on Thursday and Friday, October 24 and 25, at 1.40 p.m.; 4.00 p.m.; 6.30 p.m.; and 8.50 p.m. Harvard students may obtain tickets at Exhibition Hall in Hunt Hall, on presentation of their Bursar's cards...
Last week the Soviet secret service smelled in Berlin quiet British efforts to obtain by means of concessions to Germany the co-operation of Realmleader Adolf Hitler in boycotting Italy. This discovery threw the Soviet Union overnight from high gear into low so far as the League is concerned. Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff, whose voice at Geneva has been loudest against Il Duce, abruptly decided not to attend the League Assembly last week when it met to approve sanctions, sending instead Vladimir Potemkin, Soviet Ambassador to France. In Moscow leading Government newsorgans charged that Britain was attempting to "bribe...