Word: sere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twilight, Speyer & Co. floated many a foreign loan, financed railroads, built a railroad in Bolivia, power plants in Manila. But Speyer's London firm was dissolved in 1922; in 1934 the Lazard-Speyer-Ellissen banks in Berlin and Frankfurt were dissolved. Latterly Speyer & Co. has fallen into the sere and yellow leaf...
Under Western Stars (Republic) introduces a new singing cowboy, compact, blue-eyed, diffident Roy Rogers (real name: Leonard Slye). What makes his debut notable is that the song he sings is of social significance. On the sere cinema range ridden by twangy Roy Rogers no grazing buffalo roam. Most of the time the Western stars are blotted out by great, rolling clouds of dust. In the discouraging words of Dust, Cowboy Rogers laments...
...sand-bitten old Clark Alvord prospected in the sere Nevada hills, trudged the desert studying Indian lore, managed the post office and a general store in the desert town of Nelson (pop. 17). By night he liked to write friendly compliments to his favorite film star, Marion Davies, whose pictures he frequently drove the 40 rough miles to Las Vegas to see. Fortnight ago Prospector Alvord died, and last week his will was read. To his kin went 45% of his estate, to Actress Davies the rest. The estate: $1,000 cash, money due him on a $9,000 mining...
...London it is possible to speculate in dried flies. And on at least one occasion there was a disastrous attempt to corner the market in ant eggs. To such a pretty trading pasture at some indeterminate date went greasy Garabed Bishirgian, fresh from the sere uplands of his native Armenia. He took a flier in Turkish carpets. He traded in caviar. He gambled in tin. By the time he set himself up as a stockbroker, his friends declared that his only god was a "rising share." In 1929 he swore allegiance to His Majesty George...
...throng of farmers, bundled in sheepskins and mackinaws, who converged one morning last week in 15,000 automobiles on Farmer Ben Stalp's place near West Point, Neb. to see the National Cornhusking Championship. They cheered and stomped lustily as, with pheasants whirring up out of the sere corn rows and the yellow ears whacking against the bangboards, Husker Sherman Henriksen of Lancaster County, Nebraska, beat 16 competitors, including the champions of Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota, with a net load of 27.62 bushels in the allotted 30 minutes...