Word: sou
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handicap, if such indeed it can honestly be termed, is far offset by two notable advantages. Today, as Freshmen, they will find men's minds quickened to thought and imagination by the problems of the present crisis; to the eager student such an atmosphere is well worth the small sou of temporary, financial restriction. Four years hence, as alumni, the probability is that they will face a much kinder and less turbulent world than their brethren of the past two graduating classes...
...nothing that Chancellor von Papen's consent to pay something was sullenly received. In Paris vehement Deputies and Senators vied with each other in telling correspondents that the U. S. can expect to receive from France payments proportional to what France receives from Germany and not one sou more. In Rome the official Giornale d'Italia said: "Lausanne was the beginning, not the end. . . . The fate of the Lausanne agreement depends on the attitude of the United States, from whom European debtors await an equivalent revision of their financial position...
Naturalists have long been interested in the strange animals of Australia, the duck-billed platypus, spiny Australian anteater, the kangaroo, wombat, emu, casowary. Last week, Albert Sherbourne Le Souëf, zoölogist of Taronga Zoölogical Park, Sydney, told Australian naturalists of a huge newly discovered catlike marsupial with striped stomach seeen in mountainous Queensland districts. Said he: "I am positive Australia will present another zoölogical curiosity to the world...
...Astor.... POP....and he said that if we'd take two cases....oh, the Michigans is it? ....football? and all this time me thinking it was hockey....oh, well it all just goes to show one must keep abreast of the times....abreast, a breast of duckling....Mirabeau?....Eugenie?....sou cloche?....thanks I'll take mine with seltzer....sing a song of seltzer, sing a song of hey, waiter, how's for some more glasses?....yes, I know, but they just sort of slipped....some more of that fizzy magoozulum?....well, I don't mind....they say it's good...
...employs a corps of electricians for her liturgical performances. Sometimes she puts on a Sou'wester and has the electricians flash on a stormy seascape. Amid the tumbling brine six U. S. sailors are seen rowing for a lighthouse. She has also preached astride a motorcycle, attired as a policeman, a fireman. These properties are part of a large theatrical wardrobe...