Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William is one plucky boy," said Dr. William E. Wheatley. "He did a fair job of amputation, although, of course, he risked serious danger of infection from his knife. He'll pull through all right...
...years of Anschluss, appeasement, decree laws have not favored amorous cockleshells. As serious travelers in crisis-harried Paris resorted more & more to busses and the Métro, abandoned the fly boats' decks to languid romancers, the Société Nouvelle des Bateaux Parisiens sailed into the red. Year ago the company announced suspensions of service, shortly went into receivership. When ten surviving fly boats, including gangplanks, copper megaphones, pontoons and the skippers' hats were sold at auction for a piddling 225,000 francs ($5,962), oldtimers thronged the shore, made sad sounds. Mused L'Oeuvre...
...millions of U. S. citizens who follow racing, racing's ancient purpose?Improvement of the Breed?is largely a gag. It is no gag to The Jockey Club's Chairman. It is a business as serious as building up the world's eleventh biggest bank, to which he has devoted two decades. The banking business has not been too good for anybody in the past few years. But for William Woodward the business of breeding and running horses has been fine...
...implied threat in Secretary Hull's treaty abrogation is an embargo on shipment of war materials to Japan when six months notice is up and possibly penalty duties on Japanese goods. Cutting off U.S. scrap would put a serious crimp in Japan's manufacture of guns and other weapons. With very little scrap iron available outside of the U.S., Japan would have to buy expensive iron and steel or iron ore. For her other U.S.-supplied war materials (oil and gasoline, pig iron, copper, machinery and engines, autos, trucks and parts) Japan could go elsewhere...
...tried to pot Il Duce with a revolver in 1926. Sent from one school to another, Edda finally acquired a social and cultural veneer, an expertness on piano and violin, a fluency in French and a smattering of English. At 18 (or thereabouts) she took her first serious plunge into the outside world by going, with 125 members of the Italian Navy League, on a semi-official junket to India and Ceylon...