Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though such a movement would have seemed trifling before the lira was stabilized on a gold basis, it loomed ominously, last week, almost seven months after complete stabilization was supposed to have been achieved. With Volpi, the master stabilizer out of office, a serious slump might...
...Long Island, last week, began serious tryouts to determine the personnel of the U. S. International Cup defending team. The Oranges, with Thomas Hitchcock Jr., J. Cheever Cowdin, Will S. Tevis, C. A. Wilkinson, defeated the Whites, with Robert E. Strawbridge Jr., Malcolm Stevenson, W. A. Harriman, E. A. S. Hopping, ten to eight. They played good polo. They knew that some fast young men from the Argentine were watching them, and that these Argentinians are going to be dangerous opponents in the International Cup matches in September. The captain of the Argentine team is Jack Nelson, rich breeder...
...SERIOUS...
...this light, the suggested combine took on a new color. Suppose Magnate Farrell had made agreements with German makers to keep greedy U. S. hands out of European markets, in return for promises to keep foreign steel from offering serious competition in U. S. markets. Suppose the export combine was for the purpose of making these agreements effective. Suppose the Federal Trade Commission, to whom the combine application was made, should view such agreements as potent and possibly dangerous aids toward controlling domestic as well as foreign prices...
...performance was Mrs. William B. Leeds, onetime Princess Xenia of Greece, and Fred Astaire, brother to Adele. With their help, William B. Leeds, though burned, took Actress Astaire to a doctor for treatment, then packed her off to a Manhattan hospital, where it was said her injuries were not serious. He himself, less severely burned, went to his home in Oyster Bay and mourned the loss of the Fan Tail...