Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with some reluctance under the dubious trade-promoting schemes which Dr. Schacht works with his various kinds of German marks. This week Adolf Hitler openly revealed his displeasure at the Brazil-U. S. liaison, declared that Washington was "envious" of Germany's increased Brazilian trade, was trying to spoil Brazil's German cotton market by forcing Brazilians to pay higher prices for their industrial imports. Significantly the Fiihrer appointed as Brazilian Ambassador Dr. Karl Ritter, foreign trade specialist and one of the Reich's shrewdest diplomats...
...first began to spoil starched dinner parties by discoursing on the inadequacies of Herbert Hoover, then fell under the spell of an errant Philadelphia socialite, William Christian ("Bill") Bullitt. Thereafter his march down the sawdust trail broke into a run. With his Main Line friends he was in disgrace, but soon he was making other friends, Oilman Joseph F. Guffey, boss of Pennsylvania's Demo-cratic machine; David Leo Lawrence, a practical politician born in Pittsburgh's Old Point section down near the conflux of the Monongahela and the Allegheny; Julius David Stern, radical Jewish publisher of Philadelphia...
...from an illiterate peasant, little Anatole arrived at his first opinions by taking the opposite side from his father, one of whose opinions was that his son would never amount to much. His mother, who tucked him into bed until his marriage at 33, was the first woman to spoil him; of the others, he remembered back to the ''fair ladies" who, while he was still in his cradle, aroused his "precocious sensuality" with their tender duckings. At kindergarten age he acquired his "abiding penchant for actresses" when Actress Rachel patted him on the head. In clerical college...
...Duchy of Cornwall, and Major Edward Dudley ("Fruity") Metcalfe, onetime equerry to Edward as Prince of Wales, who will serve as Best Man. The fact that Sir Walter is a rich man with an important private practice and that Fruity Metcalfe has retired from the Army did not spoil the popularity of the gesture. Later the Counselor of the British Embassy at Paris and the British Consul at Nantes were allowed to accept on the excuse that witnessing the wedding was part of their official duties...
...Stratton Porter was an expert at this mixture; so is A. S. M. Hutchinson. In Sorrel and Son Warwick Deeping had the formula just about right, but last week his latest novel showed that even specialists in sad-gladness cannot always hit the proper ratio, that too many sobs spoil the ink. Only a nursery word like ooky-gooky or perhaps icky-poo could justly describe Blind Man's Year...