Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because he has several times been Finance Minister, a mere suggestion let fall last week by Professor Englis of Brno Law School was enough to force down 7% on international exchange the Czechoslovak crown which has remained rock firm on gold for the last twelve years...
...powers in economic matters and to confer those powers on the organs of Il Duce's famed "Corporative State" (TIME, Nov. 20, et seq.). This elaborate mechanism for integrating production, consumption, employment, profits, imports and exports is best able to function, Dictator Mussolini believes, on a rock-firm gold standard and eliminates all necessity for a managed currency...
...Telemachus, Stephen. Other obvious parallels: Hades, the graveyard; the Cave of Aeolus, the newspaper office; the Isle of Circe, the brothel. A less obvious parallel: the passage between Scylla and Charybdis, Bloom's walk through the National Library while Stephen and some literary men are discussing Aristotelianism (the rock of Dogma), Platonism (the whirlpool of Mysticism). Ulysses' slaying of Penelope's suitors has its counterpart in Bloom's casting from his mind scruples and false sentiment about himself and Molly. Almost every detail of the Odyssey's action can be found, in disguised form...
...courage of Contralto Karin Branzell. She was Fricka, the angry goddess who has a long scene with the erring Wotan. Last week she had gallstones. Pain, not expert acting, made her sing most of her music with clenched fists. Finally she had to sit down on a stage rock but she finished her scene, majestically left the stage, fainted...
...feet, which lets it be known that this is the drink of rugged individualism. There is something of the mountains of its birth in this Leadville Moon; those mountains are heavy, yet aspiring; they fall away in rugged, breath-taking scarps, and pyramid to jagged causeways of rock far above the clouds, descending again over soft alpine meadows and pastoral beauties; all this and more is to be found in Leadville Moon. It does not act like other drinks; it bowls one over, then replants; it is in no sense a cheap, shoddy imitation; it is a true invention...