Word: organized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breeding places of countless mosquitoes; of a lost cotton crop and a lost corn crop; of the collapse of the credit system hastily thrown together to relieve the stricken area. Mr. Speers writes as no sensation monger and the Times, though Democratic in policy, has never been an extremist organ, has even opposed the calling of a special flood session of Congress. Yet Mr. Speers has pictured widespread desolation made even more gloomy by the thought of what may happen when the summer is over, and autumn and winter come down upon a country where so many houses have...
...three tart sentences just quoted conveyed last week to readers of the Tokyo news organ Nichi Nichi Shinbun a very clear impression of the situation faced by the Japanese Delegation in Geneva. While the U. S. and Britain "struggled," how could their strife be turned to good account by Japanese Chief Delegate Viscount Minoru Saito? Obviously Admiral Viscount Saito ought to cast his influence on one side or the other-after appropriate bargaining. He chose last week the British side...
...General, ruthless, instantly suppressed the news organ Lupta, which had commented despairingly: "In the face of the country's unanimous expectation that it would receive a Government which it had indicated unquestionably was its choice, it is answered again with a Government by the Bratiano family. May God protect Rumania from . . . this [the King's] deed...
...Stockholm show was grand. Flags flew from poles on the Norrbro, the bridge which leads to the Swedish Houses of Parliament. One of the cleanest and most sanitary cities of the world was greeting its foreign visitors.* In the Concert Hall where the convention proceedings opened, the great organ played for 20 minutes. Then Axel F. Wallenberg, onetime Minister to the U. S. from Sweden, spoke (in English): "I have something to say to the representatives of the United States. . . . Allow me to say a few words as a Swede. In the name of my countrymen I thank...
...bookends, ash trays. They caved in the forehead of the youngest Lommelini (by Van Dyck), raked the mother's face with chair legs, sent a bottle-neck through the Lommelini daughter's cheek. One of them yanked open the vitals of a $17,000; built-in parlor organ; twisted the pipes, knocked off stops, walked on the keys, stamped, scuffed, dug with heels...