Word: soled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleaded that they had already absorbed their capacity, Australia turned in a flat "No" to Jews, and the U. S. announced that she would combine her former annual Austrian immigration quota with her German to admit 27,370 persons (who can support themselves) from Greater Germany next year. Almost sole note of encouragement came from eight Latin American nations: Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico and the Dominican Republic (which nine months ago massacred 1,000 neighboring Haitians because they moved into her territory), offered to accept a limited number of refugees if they came as agricultural workers...
Scores from I Married An Angel, the summer's sole and sufficient Broadway musicomedy, are available on Brunswick and Liberty Music Shop (795 Madison Ave., Manhattan...
...gayest or the most peaceful room in the whole college; a sheaf of notes--the ones from that certain course which really made them feel they knew something about something, which they couldn't quite bring themselves to throw out after the last exam, and which now represent the sole tangible total of a thousand lectures and a thousand hours in the libraries--their college education in final essence. And the name of Harvard, that which they can never lose now, graven on a sheet of parchment and 650 young hearts--that goes with them...
...summarily cut their pay 50%. Principal result has been sharp rivalry between the Screen Writers Guild Inc. (membership 500) and Screen Playwrights Inc. (membership 130). When Screen Playwrights last year signed a contract with seven major studios, the S. W. G. responded by asking NLRB to make it the sole bargaining agent for screen writers. Last week, after considering the evidence for over eight months, NLRB ruled that...
Each year a group of French literary notables and near-notables meets for lunch at the Restaurant Drouant in Paris, and votes for the winner of the Goncourt Prize. They are the members of the Goncourt Academy, and their sole function is that of awarding 5,000 francs to the author of "the year's best work of fiction." There are supposed to be ten members at the luncheon, but the venerable revolutionary writer, Lucien Descaves, refuses to attend meetings with Royalist Leon Daudet, always mails in his vote. After lunch, the Academy's youngest member announces...