Word: quids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible penalty of seven years in jail. London's Lord Mayor took a romantic view of the case in his capacity of magistrate, not only let Lord de Clifford off with a fine of $250 but gave him a fortnight's grace to find the fifty quid. His profession: Lieutenant, Royal Gloucester Hussars...
...denounce Italy, mostly spoke of her as their "old friend" and pledged "continued loyalty" to the League Covenant. They nodded sagely when Premier Laval recalled, as meaningly as possible last week, that only last January he sat down with Premier Mussolini and signed a "treaty"-one of the quid pro quos being a free hand for Italy in Ethiopia...
Instead II Duce committed his Sin No. 1. Nauseated by what seemed to him the futility of the League of Nations and the many failures of international conferences to settle anything, the Dictator made a separate and sinful pact with France, which sold him for a definite quid pro quo the right, so far as France was concerned, to exercise a "free hand" in Ethiopia (TIME...
Everyone knows that those boys, when the bugle blew, were over there prepared to give their all, quo quidem, opere quid potest esse praeclarius? The state police seem to forget the fact that the possession of a uniform in 1918 gives a man a privilege, well not to be too frank, to sort of disregard the laws and not to work too hard on P.W.A. They seem to forget that our boys went through hell, hell, mind you, and also the streets of Paris and the Follies Bergere...
While thus willing to legalize Realmleader Hitler's rupture of the Treaty of Versailles as part of the quid pro quo in a general settlement, Britain and France "agreed that neither Germany nor any other power whose armaments have been defined by peace treaties is entitled by unilateral action to modify these obligations...