Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this deficiency, most of the large cast of characters who figure in Shining Scabbard are a shadowy and illusive folk, bearing so little resemblance to ordinary humans they might easily be mistaken for apparitions, and engaged in actions that seem far better suited to the nether regions than to solid earth...
...mountain girl when she went West to make good. She has lived in Los Angeles since 1920 when she married Erwin P. ("Pete") Werner, an indifferently successful lawyer, who she determined would someday be Governor. As she pushed her husband onward and upward, Queen Helen became adept at the solid kind of political maneuvering that women master infrequently. In 1929, after she had managed Pete Werner's successful campaign for city attorney, Queen Helen was so important politically that she found it necessary to open a downtown office to handle the stream of political callers. She widened her circle...
...then actually two banks, Central National and Central Savings. National failed to reopen after the 1933 banking holiday, though Savings did. As president of Savings and conservator of National, Banker Mount dug in. National's depositors were paid off 100 cents on the dollar and Savings became rock-solid Central Bank of Oakland...
...Duke & Duchess of York sit down to dinner with Queen Mary in Marlborough House. From 9:15 to 10:05 m Buckingham Palace the King and Mr. Baldwin discuss his claim that the Dominions are solid against Mrs. Simpson...
...Paris after covering every phase of the civil war in Spain arrived New York Timesman William P. Carney. Over the eight solid weekday columns of his first dispatch the Times headlined: "MADRID SITUATION REVEALED; UNCENSORED STORY OF SIEGE. All Semblance of Democratic Forms of Government in Spain Disappears-25,000 Put to Death by Radicals-Priests, Nuns Slain." Excerpts: "Hundreds of luckless Spaniards who held the most liberal political views have been slain in Madrid because they were denounced by former servants who were discharged for incompetence...