Word: rosiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Short on inhibitions, The Primrose Path at its rosiest is all downhill and no brakes. Were all the characters as rowdy and ribald as Grandma, the play would blow the audience into the middle of next year. But the rest of the family, if unconventional, are given to normal moments of joy and sorrow. After mixing Grandma's outrageous antics with her son-in-law's gruesome suicide and her granddaughter's rocky romance, The Primrose Path fails to come off as well as it might. For, though humor and pathos make the best of friends, realism...
...Poling was called to Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church (Dutch Reformed) and from its pulpit began his weekly radio talks. By 1929 Prohibition again needed champions. "Dan" Poling resigned from his pulpit. He used his rosiest platform manner on the Republican convention of 1932. then stumped 31 states by airplane, insisting to the end that the country was dry. Without a pulpit, he has since devoted his energies to turning out what he calls "smashing editorials" in the Christian Herald...
...Italo-Ethiopian War spectre looked like the rosiest kind of good news to the businessmen of Japan last week. As the War bogey rose bigger & blacker in Europe, traders on the floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange hugged themselves with joy, deliriously bought & bought. One day transactions reached an all-time high: 1,166,000 shares. Next day Tokyo trading went through this roof to 1,183,000 shares. At week's end practically every stock on the list had risen from...
With a liberal sprinkling of President Hoover's rosiest 1928 quotations. Speaker Garner's argument took this tack: The 1929 crash and subsequent Depression hit the U. S. first, did not. as Republicans claim, come from abroad. The economic collapse developed from domestic folly and the notion that prosperity was about to "abolish poverty." For two years President Hoover minimized Federal deficits, missed his guess as to their total size by about four billion dollars. Public distrust of Treasury policy was at the root of last winter's panic. The President was two years late getting around...