Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contemporaries in early 19th Century Philadelphia, Stephen Girard was an old codger in an unfashionable full-skirted coat and pigtail who frequently jostled his way to High Street Market to sell baskets of eggs and vegetables from his farm in Passyunk Township, three miles southwest of the city. Solid burghers, however, recognized him as the man who paid one-tenth of Philadelphia's real estate taxes, who had in 1814 subscribed to 95% of the U. S. Government's unpopular $5,000,000 war loan. Clergymen were painfully aware that he read the French rationalists, owned 18 ships...
...potentialities of the movement as an effective satire have been realized. A joke gets known more widely and more rapidly than a philosophy thesis, and as such, the movement has swept the nation's campuses. But it is at this point that the Veterans of Future Wars need a solid foundation under them. That foundation must be utter seriousness, thinly veiled by the humor of the idea, and not vice versa. As an example, a Future War Veteran kept up his front against the ridicule of a Congressman in Washington and asked, in all seriousness, how to go about lobbying...
Parson Stubbs had passed the hat before Speaker Byrns mustered up sufficient hardheartedness to point out that it was strictly against the House rules to take up a collection on the floor. By that time, though, Representative Dunn had $44 for the Parkers, had dealt a solid rebuke to Washington's local relief authorities...
Should the solid, saucy-faced little blonde appear in cinema, most of Europe's royalty would be her devoted fans. Queen Mary gasped when she saw Sonja in 1928, deplored the fact that she herself could not figure skate. Edward VIII has paid her many a kingly compliment. In 1934 ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany gave her his diamond stickpin crowned with the Hohenzollern crest. Her own sovereign, King Haakon VII of Norway, sends her a telegram or cable before every foreign appearance. And Reichsführer Adolf Hitler this winter invited Sonja and her parents...
...first page of the Herald Tribune's second section last week, and flanking Pundit Walter Lippmann's animadversions, "On The Record" began with no self-conscious fanfare but proved to be reading matter as solid as its famed neighbor. "I, like 120,000,000 other Americans," began Columnist Thompson, "will probably never grasp the truth about the money system." Thereupon, with no further matronly misgivings, Miss Thompson proceeded to discuss the profundities of the Corporation Tax Bill for some 1,500 words...