Word: parlous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such parlous times it behooves all those in power to tread carefully. Bold words and recriminations are not to be valued when they promise to prove boomerangs. Dr. Schacht has indeed acted strangely in receiving Allied reductions so coldly, and precipitating the present impasse. He seems to be playing for high stakes, and Germany stands to lose heavily if he loses. The members of the Committee and their governments are eager to avoid the abyss which he has opened before them, but there is great question whether governments do not move so ponderously that even though the will...
Mark French, youthful painter, Robert Newlands, less youthful Oxford Don, were both conducting parlous affairs of the heart; and had it not been for their eighteenth century habit of writing each to the other as confidant, neither affair would have turned out so satisfactorily. Into the Lake Country Mark pursued his love-at-first-sight, a charming bit of femininity out of Jane Austen, or-remembering her ferocious father and mysterious exile at Farthing Hall-Jane Eyre. Mark had no sooner wrung from her a timid confession of love than she dismissed him, insisting that her duty lay with...
...become traditional to speak of the seat of America's most recent demagogue as the haunt of light fingered but heavy handed artists, notables for whom the open spaces of Cook country breed only potential victims or competitors; but, in the opinion of the clergy, conditions have reached a parlous state since the last elections, and it is scarcely safer there for a private citizen than it would be for George Windsor...
Faith. Five years ago, the Argentine State Railways were in parlous need of locomotives and even of operating funds. But financing at terms at all reasonable was difficult. President Samuel Matthews Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive Works, perspicacious with his 70 years of activity, learned of this situation and shipped down $7,107,850 worth of engines and $1,500,000 in cash, taking in return notes which the Argentine Congress did not confirm. And for five years financiers have on occasion twitted Mr. Vauclain about those notes. Last week those notes were paid, with interest, promptly...
There is nothing complacent about Walter P. Chrysler, super-mechanic. Fame and a fabulous salary were his when he boomed the Buick. He straightway proceeded to crank up Willys-Overland. Then he steered Maxwell and Chalmers around a parlous financial corner. Next he put his name on 32,000 little winged bullets-Chrysler Sixes-and sent them flying through the land...