Word: pinching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country in peace as well as in war, the American Legion stages annually the World's Greatest Organized Drunk. There pot-bellied morons, stinking drunk, and once again briefly freed from the ties of home, dirty up the town which has been lucky enough to secure their services, pinch and heckle the female passers-by, and in general demonstrate to the world the manifold advantages of the democracy for which it was, unfortunately, not made safe...
...that the League Assembly take action about the munitions now reaching Spain's White Armies contrary to the declared embargo of the Great Powers (TIME, Sept. 7 et ante). Possibly because Madrid is now also beginning to get such munitions, Geneva success was achieved by those putting the pinch on Spanish Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo. While he could not be persuaded to keep quiet, his empurpled and highflown Latin oration about Democracy being at the crossroads in Madrid was completely stultified by Orator Alvarez del Vayo himself when he announced that last week the Madrid Cabinet...
Miss Worthingham pinch-hit for Margaret Jewell, instructor of physical education in San Jose (Calif.) State College, where the four strapping dancing demonstrators were students. Had Miss Jewell been present in Los Angeles last week, she would have advised playing on drums for cripples. Wrote she: "Excellent postural results can be derived from cross-legged sitting, trunk erect, arms lifted from the shoulder-elbows akimbo, while the pupil's interest is intrigued with rhythmic patterns to be played on her drum. Heart cases who often feel very 'out of things' because of numerous restrictions may become valuable...
...land last week, colleges named the faculties who would sit in summer session to teach earnest graduate students, roll up needed credits for delinquent undergraduates. As always, most were winter facultymen eager to pad out lean budgets by a warm month's work. A few, however, were notable pinch hitters called in from the world outside...
Chief aim of the new law is, of course, to force declaration of dividends, collect high surtaxes from the rich. Incidental effect will also be to pinch pennies from small stockholders in big companies. Under the old law an individual who owned ten shares of stock earning $6 per share and paying $3 dividends, got $30 in dividends tax free. The Government took about $9 in taxes out of the profits kept by the company and $21 of his dollars remained in the company's hands for expansion, etc. Under the new law if the dividend rate remains unchanged...