Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eventually, stiff, sore, weak from twelve days' abstaining from solid food, Mr. Kelly came down. First he kissed his 19-year-old bride of six months, who had kept watch on the hotel roof, and hoisted up supplies on a pulley system. Then he prepared to exercise the cramped fingers of his right hand in the pleasant task of signing the vaudeville contract promised as the fruit of his labors...
Forty-eight hours before ascending he ceased to take solid food. Moreover he has trained himself to sleep for ten minutes every hour on his stool. Lest he topple off while asleep, his thumbs are thrust tightly into holes bored in the eight-inches-in-diameter wooden seat...
...roosted, last week, Mrs. Kelly passed up to him bottles of milk, broth, coffee-but no solid food. Any surplus he poured down a pipe running alongside the flagpole. He smoked, per day, approximately four packages of cigarets. Cheery, he called down to reporters: "After 48 hours of this you don't mind anything...
Easterners in (say) Santa Fe, N. Mex., putting down a five-dollar bill for a pack of cigarets are likely to receive four large round silver dollars in their change. No animus is intended-Southwesterners are used to the silver dollars-solid, tangible, clanking evidence of wealth. A man with ten silver dollars weighting down his pockets may always be pleasantly conscious of his solvency. But Easterners and the U. S. public in general have not taken kindly to the silver dollars which are deemed cumbersome, termed "cartwheels,"' given with apology, received with reluctance...
Such a man, Japanese thought last week, possesses the qualities of courage, resourcefulness and leadership necessary to avert financial panic in the present crisis. He began his labors by naming a Cabinet of solid, able conservatives: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign