Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...society editor appeared. Bertha Palmer maintained winter palaces in London and Paris but they served chiefly as hunting preserves where she caught European royalty and nobility for her Chicago castle. Chicago was good to Mrs. Palmer. It was always properly dazzled by her social display. Her only serious setback occurred in 1893 during the World's Fair. The Infanta Eulalie of Spain, whose spun glass dress of 2,500,000 threads weighed only one pound, attended one of her levees but curtly refused to meet her hostess- "that innkeeper's wife." For this famed snub Mrs. Palmer soon...
This shot, according to reporters covering the Conference, threw Mr. Churchill badly out of his stride. "He never seemed to recover from this setback and failed to make his expected 'fighting speech...
...Little Setback." To digest the U. S. fiscal and tariff policies stated by Messrs. Cox and Hull several Continental delegates, notably M. Bonnet, flew home to their capitals. Meanwhile the dollar lost some four cents more of its value, dropped to the equivalent of 77? gold. Rumors that this decline might jar loose the stabilized franc, plus London comment that the U. S. tariff proposals offered little more than pious hopes, plunged Conference journalists into such gloom that Prime Minister MacDonald decided to go among them radiating Scotch cheer...
...effect of this Conference is to be to a very considerable extent a psychological effect" said Mr. MacDonald. "This week we had a little setback. Our hopes regarding temporary stabilization received just a little check. But I never felt there was very much to it. . . . My daily conference with the presidents and vice presidents [of Conference committees] this morning was as lively in spirit and as hopeful as any I have seen. When the matter of adjournment was mentioned they all laughed and we proceeded immediately to more serious practical business...
Nicholas and Benson, Crimson number 1 man, were high scorers with three goals apiece, while Davis scored the remaining Crimson goal. Both Harvard and Penn tallies were well scattered throughout the match, neither team scoring more than twice in one chukker. The Penn scoring machine received a setback in the opening chukker when the pony ridden by Pickering. Penn number 2, fell and rolled on his rider. Despite this shaking up, Pickering tied with Young for his team's scoring honors...