Word: reaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another furious bombardment was launched in which correspondents counted a shell every ten seconds. Across the Straits of Gibraltar from Spanish Morocco, Generalissimo Franco rushed 14,000 more troops, some of them foreign volunteers and tatterdemalion striplings. In a few weeks he will sidetrack great numbers of troops to reap the July grain harvest if he wants his soldiers to have enough to eat this autumn...
...Depression dilemma faced by policyholders was a large increase in the clientele of independent insurance counselors, who work for fees, not commissions. Life companies are inclined to regard all insurance counselors as "twisters," people who persuade a policyholder to cancel a contract in one company in order to reap the commission on the sale of a new contract in another. Calvin Coolidge learned that the term could not be applied indiscriminately after a St. Louis counselor sued him and New York Life for $100,000 damages. Mr. Coolidge, then a New York Life director, had denned the word too loosely...
...earnest U. S. dailies while their most prominent news columns and largest headlines went to the Woman of the Year (see col. 3). The President was more than ever the Man of the Year of the Americas, and his happy appearance on the Buenos Aires scene was enough to reap millions of responsive Latin smiles. After he sailed home, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, by his courtly modesty and winning character, achieved more than the State Department had expected or hoped, skillfully assisted by its Spanish-speaking Sumner Welles, among diplomats an ace professional. This week the Conference...
London's sidewalk artists reap a harvest of Sunday coppers by drawing Mrs. Simpson in colored crayon. Meanwhile King Edward at his snuggery declines to receive his friend and recent guest in Scotland, the Hon. Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, son of the No. 2 British Press Tycoon Viscount Rothermere. In his great, mass-conscious penny-press thunders Rothermere: "I have just returned from a trip around the world. . . . Everywhere unstinted praise and admiration of our King! . . . You cannot smuggle the greatest living Englishman off the throne of England during the weekend...
...plump Jeanne Pengelly, a native of Toronto, whose part was danced by pretty, half-clad Daphne Vane. Conductor Richard Hageman, rejoining the Metropolitan after an absence of 14 years, did his best by the stately, sculptured score. But only those, who were smart enough to close their eyes could reap its full benefit...