Word: sacrosanct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professional Drys who hold the 18th Amendment sacrosanct found themselves beaten before the delegates assembled at the Stadium. So wide and deep has been the popular revulsion against Prohibition that the convention promptly settled down into a contest between Repeal and Revision, with never a thought of Retention. In the Florentine Room of the Congress Hotel were held perfunctory hearings for the extremists of both sides, after which a committee of 17 went into secret session to jigsaw a 500-word declaration on Prohibition. President Hoover would not stand for outright Repeal as Connecticut's Senator Bingham ardently demanded...
...council ordered a raid on the city's sinking fund. The sinking fund has 133 million dollars in banked cash and locked up bonds with which to pay interest and principal on long term community borrowings. Such sinking funds are for a specific purpose, should be financially sacrosanct. But desperate Philadelphia traded its Jan. 1 promise-to-pay to the sinking fund for cash to pay employes...
...danger of abductions of sacrosanct animals cannot be lightly cast aside. Masterpieces of the taxidermist's art, having served long and faithfully in the Peabody Museum, may be forcibly removed from their perches. The heads of elk and bison which have looked down from the walls in the Union upon generations of Harvard men would tempt any kleptomaniacal collector of mounted beasts. Beware the Jabberwock...
...pound. This worried Spaniards. They sell to Britons sherry, etc. Anxiously Madrid foresaw that Portugal, by letting her escudo slide with sterling, will be able to offer drink, etc. to thirsty Britons cheaper than Spain, whose peseta is semi-stabilized on a gold basis. Gold Standard-"Cross of Gold?" Sacrosanct to most bankers though the Gold Standard is, rumblings came from some quarters last week remindful of William Jennings Bryan, "free silver," "16 to i" and "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!" In Colombia, harassed President Olaya Herrera decided that his country's burdens...
...there in the sacrosanct, holy of holies the Harvard Yard he espied that sight so common to Mondays the world over. A day late to be sure, but there it was lines and lines of clothes hung out to dry. Wooden clothespins. Laundry by bales. And at last his heart was content. His home was some thing more than a state of mind at last...