Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This prince is the Hohenzollern member of Adolf Hitler's rampant National Socialist, "Nazi" or Fascist Party. Last week the publishers of Berlin's potent Tageblatt charged (in one of their smaller papers, 8-Uhr Abendblatt) that August Wilhelm is the "Paymaster" through whom Wilhelm of Doom has contributed "large sums" to the "Nazi" war-chest. If indeed the onetime All Highest stands financially back of Trouble Maker Hitler, certainly last week Wilhelm II got his money's worth...
...when only 29 Lawyer Smith, now "F. E." to every potent barrister in England, pocketed close to $200,000 as his outrageous fee for counseling British tobacco interests how to deal with America's then rampant tobacco tycoon, James B. Duke. To celebrate he took a bride from Oxford. She, Margaret Eleanor Furneaux, dutiful daughter of a canny old Latin Professor, had obeyed her father when he told her to put off marrying Freddy some years earlier, "because one meets so many rising young men who never seem to rise...
Copper. Following last fortnight's bearish statistics on the copper situation (TIME, Sept. 22), prices were again revised last week. Big producers who had been quoting 11? dropped to 10¼?, then 10½. Custom smelters slashed their price from 10¼? to 10½. Rumors were rampant that many large properties would soon be closed down. Although bulls found solace in the report that Western Electric during the past six weeks has bought enough copper to supply the Bell System's needs for four months, and other large consumers likewise think the present levels attractive, bears replied...
...Mace. Perhaps because no Congressman ever raped it, few U. S. citizens know that the House of Representatives has its distinctive Mace, topped by a silver American Eagle rampant. Should two Congressmen quarrel in the House, Sergeant-at-Arms J. G. Rodgers or his assistant would instantly snatch the Mace from its pedestal at the right of Speaker Longworth's chair and advance upon the hotheads. Such quarrels instantly and almost invariably cool. Probably apocryphal is the story that a Congress man once refused to cool, whereupon the quick-witted Sergeant-at-Arms placed the silver eagle's beak within...
Rumson, N. J., June 13 Princeton's crack polo team went to the fore in the Intercollegiate polo matches being held this week-end when Pennsylvania Military College went down before the rampant Tigers in the opening match of the tourney, 10 to 7 this afternoon. The match was played at Princeton as part of the Commencement entertainment but all the other matches will be held on the Country Club field here...