Word: oft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laddie' Brewer who liked to go to bed At eight o'clock and as mess-officer Was hailed until a diet of canned crab Too oft repeated change of sentiment Provoked, and so another was elected...
...London. "The City's" gloomy Guildhall was strewn with sweet herbs for the occasion. The Aldermen staggered under the tricornered hats and massive gold & black robes of their nominal office as Liverymen of the ancient London trade guilds. Each carried a nosegay. Trumpets blew. The Liverymen shouted their oft-rehearsed parts. Aldermen who had already been Lord Mayor were told to leave the Common Hall. Then the remaining members of the Grocers. Fishmongers, Butchers, Bakers, Waxchandlers, Armourers & Brasiers, Stationers, Bowyers, Coachmakers, and Glovers Guilds elected Sir Stephen of the Fanmakers' Company Lord Mayor for one year. A great...
Chinese bankers have stolidly watched the Roosevelt Administration's oft-repeated promise to "do something about silver," increase the price of the metal, upon which Chinese currency is based, from about 16? to about 50? an ounce. One of the loudest cries of silver Senators in the U. S. was that raising the price of silver would also raise the purchasing power of the Far East...
...changing background of New Deal activities yesterday's presidential act creating the National Industrial Recovery Board probably looms as large and significant in its implications as any other specific act of the administration since NRA's inception. The change is, of course, in line with the President's oft-reiterated statement that nothing except the spirit of the NRA can be regarded as permanent, but the face-saving value of this statement now becomes evident as never before proffered though it was in all sincerity...
...Alexander Korda, whose previous work of note was "Henry VIII," is responsible for the able direction of "Catherine," and to him goes the credit for successfully catching the gaudy brilliance of the "nouveau riche" Russia that was trying to imitate the grandeur of contemporary Europe. Elizabeth Bergner, as has oft been repeated, does a splendid job to produce an absorbing Catherine; and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. also capably handles the Mad Czar Peter, whose throne Catherine usurped because of his unfitness to rule...