Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joint import program. British and French foreign financial resources and bargaining power shall be pooled, so that the Allies buy together instead of competitively in neutral countries. Equally important, each shall buy in the other's Empire so far as possible, so that the transactions can be on paper and the joint reserves of gold and foreign exchange husbanded. Those old allies, the pound and the franc, shall of course march together in international exchange till death doth them part...
...elder Pitt's] attacks of gout," said the Italian paper Telegrafo last week, "were the most splendid and memorable in British history. They are definitely linked with the conquest of Canada and India. In British statesmen [gout] acts as an imperialist stimulant. Beware if Mr.Chamberlain returns to the House of Commons . . . hobbling on crutches...
...first a supporter of Woodrow Wilson, he grew scornful of the President's caution, eventually warned his readers: "Beneath the veneering of scholarly polish lies the coiled serpent of unscrupulous ambition." After rich Judge Robert Worth Bingham bought the paper in 1918 and supported the League of Nations (". . . inevitably Woodrow Wilson would be caught by such a whimsy . . .") Marse Henry quit in disgust. He died a few years later...
...national reputation that Colonel Watterson had given it. But he left the editorial page to Harrison Robertson, and in 1929 resigned the title to him. (Judge Bingham became Franklin Roosevelt's Ambassador to Great Britain, died in office two years ago.) Editor Robertson never worked for any other paper. He had been 60 years a member of the Courier-Journal staff when he died last fortnight...
...Paris and Barcelona, Picasso painted the sombre, introspective canvases of his "Blue Period." By 1904 he returned to live in Paris, permanently, and in swift succession followed the "Harlequin," "Rose" and "Negro" periods. By 1908 he was pioneering in cubism, with a side foray into pasted paper compositions. Picasso's seven years' designing for the Russian Ballet, beginning in 1917, led him into a neo-classical realism, culminating in the sculptural Three Graces (see cut) of 1924. Year later his classicism came to a violent end with his painting, The Three Dancers (see cut), which left...