Word: soling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assertion. He gave them pointedly to understand that they were not to draw inferences from his refusal to comment- such inferences were 99% wrong. By the time he had finished, the newshawks had seen a new side of their hitherto cheery President. Abashed, they filed out in silence. Sole cause for the outburst was that at a previous conference, he had denied that he would ask for State NRA to supplement his new NRA act (see p.11). The news was flashed to Indiana. The Governor, Democrat Paul V. McNutt, who is making a great to-do for passage...
Europe had forgotten and will quickly forget again that there ever was an Italo-Abyssinian agreement, sponsored at Geneva this winter by the League Council. "My interpretation of the agreement is," continued Abyssinia's Great Editor, "that Abyssinia and Italy recommence direct negotiations forthwith, with the sole purpose of arranging prompt arbitration of various matters in dispute. These include...
Three weeks later the U.S.S. Akron fell into the Atlantic off the New Jersey coast during a violent thunder storm (TIME, April 10, 1933). With her perished Admiral Moffett and 72 others. Sole surviving officer was Lieut. Commander Wiley who could no more account for the loss of the Akron then than he could last week for the loss of her sister ship in the Pacific...
...kitchen staff during the Franco-Prussian War, Escoffier became a cook in the grand manner, fed Kaiser Wilhelm salmon steamed in champagne, plied King George V with variations of cream cheese (a favorite dish), invented peach Melba. Other Escoffier creations: Sauce Diable, quail Richelieu, filet of sole Waleska. He knew more than 5,000 recipes, wrote a monumental cookbook which he modestly prefaced: "It would be absurd to aspire to fix the destinies...
...left, communistic organizations justifiably protest. In an un-regimented state, however, similar tolerance must also be exhibited towards the right. The privately-endowed university, free from direct obligations towards the existing--or any other--form of government, should preserve the tradition of freedom by maintaining academic fitness as the sole criterion in making its appointments...