Word: ramrodded
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...company, worked low-grade lead ores at a profit, using one-third the former man power. At 56 he found time to design the America's Cup yacht Weetamoe. The same year he got a D.Sc. degree from Colorado School of Mines. Now white-haired, straight as a ramrod, he still designs boats for his friends, says: "If I had time I might try something entirely different. There's nothing so stimulating as a new career...
...coffee is brought to him on a tray. One morning last week the President lay abed reading things in the newspapers that might well have taken away his appetite for breakfast. The Press was fairly bellowing with indignation at him because it appeared that he was cocked & primed to ramrod his social reform tax bill through Congress in less than a week...
...stockbroker with a firm of his own at No. 2 Wall Street. He is supposed to handle the brokerage business of the Baker interests, including First National Bank. Sometimes he is annoyed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange by convivial members who slap his ramrod back, rudely asking why he works...
Beck v. Versailles. Vastly different was the impact on the League of Nations last week of that stern, ramrod-backed bean pole in human form, Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck. Only when the craze for yo-yo tops struck Warsaw two years ago was Colonel Beck seen really to unbend, pumping his yo-yo up & down on its string with pleased dexterity. In the past year the Colonel has been on dangerous ground and he trod it firmly last week...
Sweden's ramrod King Gustaf Adolf still had an heir last week in his son Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, but he could be sure of little else. Romance had already induced one of his brothers and two of his grandsons to renounce their right of succession to one of the few good thrones left in Europe. Last week it took a third grandson, 22-year-old Prince Bertil Gustaf Oscar Charles Eugen, Duke of Halland, Chevalier of the Order of the Seraphim, third son of the Crown Prince. Bertil's eye had fallen on one Christina Brambeck, yellow...