Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ticklish job of refinancing $727.000.000 of Government securities that fall due in December-a job made difficult by what Mr. Morgenthau had done to devalue the dollar. Not wanting any unnecessary dollar-doubts to circulate, Mr. Bailie promptly made known that the December financing would be carried out without resort to greenbackery...
...baccarat. Nobody could deny that it was at least the largest gambling casino in Europe, equipped with one of the best theatres and finest restaurants in France. The Palais never paid, but Mr. Gould, who has hotel properties in Nice, used to say, "Never mind, the casino makes the resort." It also made the six other baccarat casinos in Nice, including that owned by the city, furious. Mr. Gould liked the Palais so well that he had a medal struck in white gold for the architect. He liked the medal so well that he had a second one struck...
...corn bread and night clubs. His pet diversions are ping-pong and bicycling. Being very finicky about his table-tennis racquets, Nagel has imported an extra-large weapon from Germany. For the rest of his exercise, since he left his bicycle in the West, he finds it necessary to resort to ambulation. He usually walks from ten to fifteen miles a day. It was while walking around Central Park that he memorized the lines for the show in which he is now playing. "Being a timid young man," said Nagel. "I avoided the inside of the Park, where thugs...
...well. However, the Senator adds, in reply to a question by Mr. Green: "No, there is nothing in the law of the codes which prohibits strikes and there is nothing in the policy of the board which is opposed to strikes as an instrument of the very last resort...
...will prove to have guessed right this time. As it grows clearer that the budget will have to be balanced, and as it becomes equally clear that no group in France will consent to increased direct taxation, flight from the gold standard and subsequent inflation may appear the only resort,--a thought which is causing insomnia to spread like the plague through the ranks of the rentiers...