Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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One universal prediction at the outset of 1930 was that construction, long low, would zoom under the impetus of cheap money and the many Hoover-pleas. Last week were published figures indicating that the long-awaited zoom will have to be a terrific one the next six months if 1930...
After 185 pleas of "not guilty" had been entered, Cavaliere Allocati, President of the tribunal, addressed the jury thus: "You must sacrifice all personal interests, cut yourselves off from your homes and families, neglect your business interests? for how long? . . .
German winegrowers, too, complained last week of low prices, overproduction. Into Berlin's famed Potsdamer Platz marched one Josef Putz, Moselle Valley vintner, pushing a large cask of Moselle in front of him. On each of the cask's heads were inscribed pleas to drink more Moselle, eschew...
House Afire concerns a philosophical incendiary who sets a torch to unhappy homes in the hope that life will seem better in the embers' glow. He perceives, for instance, that young Mrs. Walter Elliott is uneasy in her installment-plan nest in Rockport, N. J., and that her husband...
Daniel Calhoun Roper, South Carolina Democrat, under whom, as President Wilson's Commissioner of Internal Revenue, national Prohibition enforcement began. Loud have been Wet pleas for a U. S. liquor dispensary system. Only in South Carolina from 1893 to 1907 was such a system ever attempted on a large...