Word: pinching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With this pinch of salt Playwright Guitry has seasoned his most recent play, and to the Queen's taste. The comedy of manners, which surrounds it, mounted in the style of the seventies of the eighteenth century, with all the delightfully feminine thrills and furbelows which attended...
...Senate: "Monsignor Belford is a villainous and scurrilous little Catholic puppy up here in the State of New York, who edits or writes for a little sheet called The Mentor, and who suggests that a thug be hired to waylay and attack me. I could pinch his brains out between my thumb and forefinger...
...left the thriving campus where he had expended much fruitful energy in the past four years, Dr. Marvin must have had to pinch himself to believe he was really going. It was almost ludicrous. Here he was, a planner of big things and a doer of them, a substantial, efficient person who left nothing to chance, actually tripped and frustrated by an obstacle which had seemed microscopic only yesterday. He was a lion laid low by a mouse, a pilgrim to El Dorado who had stepped on a dust adder...
...Sherdel, vehement, in baggy trousers. For five innings Sherdel, famed for his delayed ball, pitched perfectly; his slow curves wound whitely up to the plate and winked out of sight into Catcher O'Farrell's glove while Yankee batsmen swore and pirouetted. But in the ninth inning Pinch Hitter Paschal smashed a single to centre scoring Gehrig, tying the score, 2 to 2. An extra inning gave the Yankees victory. Score: New York. 3; St. Louis...
...cables carried news that the great Diskonto Gesellschaft, the largest bank in Germany, has been forced to increase its capital by 35 million gold marks, of which 10 million were acquired by Dillon, Read. Though this transaction was entirely extra-Dawes Plan, it unquestionably had its roots in the pinch of reparations upon German industry. As everyone knows, the Diskonto Gesellschaft is one of the four great "D. Banks" of Germany, which include the Deutsche, Dresdener and Darmstaedtner Banks. Before and during the War this potent fiscal quadrangle stood four-square in dominance of German industry...