Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democracy is finished! Democracies today are simply the centres of infection- the tools for Bolshevism. That is one group. We are the other group. . . . Democracy is sand driven by the wind. Our political ideal is a rock like a granite peak. . . . This is the beginning of a new peaceful situation. We have, through it, several years of calmer development before...
...First thing that happened was that the stage required costly reinforcement with steel beams. It then became necessary to excavate beneath the stage to build a place to move Mr. Bel Geddes' great blocks of scenery. The stage was built on solid rock...
...collection of sheep horns, plaster relief maps, Indian blankets, rock specimens, framed photographs, stuffed animals, miners' picks and other objects assembled during the past 20 years, the Yosemite National Park Museum owes its present attractive two-story stone building to a $75,000 grant in 1924 from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Foundation. Besides the necessary offices for park naturalists, guides and officials, sheep horns and blankets have filled most of the rest of the available space, yet by order of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, the museum must now find room for these 198 paintings, most...
...verins in northern France. The most sensible character in the story, Renée nevertheless has more than a little of the mysterious in her makeup: an undisclosed past, a touch of African blood in her veins, strange intuitions, dark, puzzling eyes. She is a rock of common sense compared to her dreamy husband, Captain Pierre Séverin, who mutters ominously that she must pay no attention to what his parents say against him, dreads her leaving, but seems so helpless in doing anything about it that he gives the impression of being a little feebleminded. Still stranger...
...then actually two banks, Central National and Central Savings. National failed to reopen after the 1933 banking holiday, though Savings did. As president of Savings and conservator of National, Banker Mount dug in. National's depositors were paid off 100 cents on the dollar and Savings became rock-solid Central Bank of Oakland...