Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advance of opening of the case, Mr. Simpson was rumored to have committed the technical adultery required for divorce in England with a young woman nicknamed "Buttercup" at the fashionable resort of Maidenhead. A London florist revealed that the King sends Mrs. Simpson ?5 ($25) worth of long-stemmed red roses per day, or about 15 dozen in summer when they are cheap and five dozen daily in midwinter when they are dear...
...University double bill so early in its career. It just hasn't got anything--Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, and the dewy-eyed heroine not excepted. The dance numbers are too fragmntary to deserve criticism. The songs are doggerel. The conventional comedy quartet is so bad it has to resort to camera tricks. But Frank McHugh comes through with one good gag, and there is some bedroom slapsticking worth watching
...marine owner to employ whomever he chooses. Thus employers could not lock out workers for reasons of prejudice or party, but would still control the calibre of the crews, on which safe conduct at sea so much depends. Agreements based on these points could be made without resort to strikes and violence along the coastline, if either side would adopt a spirit of fair play. For clearly the best interests of the shipping trade demand a decent standard of living for sailors, as well as an equitable return to the owners of the ships...
...means of humorous relief during the compilation of this book invariably came when certain brain-twitching cases among the Commuters were called up as a last resort in checking...
...improve in a sensational manner relatively to those in gold countries. Naturally depreciation of itself could not have accomplished these miracles, but in freeing nations of the concern over reserves, budgetary balances, and in assuring these countries of low money rates and necessary monetary expansion, the authorities show a resort to exchange depreciation gave their economics the necessary stimulus. In so doing, moreover, they put pressure on gold countries, now faced with "unfair" competition, also to give up the gold standard. The longer the list of paper countries the more likely that the remaining gold countries will be forced...