Word: postern
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...completely torn down. 2) The low but massive 10% General Tariff on manufactures built last February becomes a 20% wall topped by special duties on luxury articles which form castellations, buttresses and tariff towers as high as 33¼%. In any fortress there are of course postern gates through which the sly slip in. Thus U. S. typewriters, which have been subject to a 50% tariff and would normally be subject to the new general rate of 20%, will slip in through a special 10% postern...
...great pistons n a pumping system, trains of cars slid to and fro. From distant conduits they sucked in their human packing, shot the swaying masses to central arteries, discharged them through clattering turnstiles which enumerated the herd and propelled any who sought to delay with a genial postern whack." Even his criticisms are a left-handed compliment: "[The Americans] fall into mass hysterias on small provocation; they continually suppose themselves on the verge either of calamity or salvation; everything is exaggerated to a panacea or a menace, so much so that I could not tell, reading the advertising, which...