Word: standingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glamor Girl Frazier, her actual debut was suitably anticlimactic. She had the snuffles. In deference to her economizing executor (Chase National Bank), non-vintage champagne was served. For the occasion Mrs. Watriss hired two photographers-one to take official photographs, the other to stand at the door and keep out newscameramen who might try to crash the party. At 4:30 a. m. Brenda ended her rhumba dancing and sat down to chat with a tablecloth around her shoulders...
...Hitler. "I'm so much against him [Hitler]," cried the spectacular Virginia lady who 'has sat in the House of Commons since 1919, "that I wouldn't think of accepting an invitation to meet him if one were offered me. I loathe dictators and all they stand for. The most horrible thing Hitler has done is to warp the lives of Jewish children. Isn't it awful we can't tell what this lunatic is going to do next...
...surprising result was obtained last month by a Fortune poll of public opinion. The question: "Should the Democratic powers, including the United States, now stand firm together at any cost to prevent Hitler or Mussolini from taking any more territory at the expense of other nations?" The answers: 56.3 per cent, Yes; 31 per cent, No; undecided, 12.7 per cent...
...fishing grounds on earth are richer. But every attempt to cash in on the St. Paul bonanza has failed. A boat called the Austral disappeared into the fog with all hands. Crews on the Kerguelen and Réve, two other ships which made the attempt, could not stand the chilly weather. Since the sole diet on St. Paul is lobster and fish, a 1931 party of seven got 1) terrible tempers; 2) scurvy. Four of them died...
...Morgan, although the man who really runs it is dapper, twinkling, argumentative Bradford B. Locke of Princeton, its able executive vice president. Last week the Church Pension Fund held its 21st annual meeting in Manhattan, heard from its President William Fellowes Morgan that its assets now stand at a fat $33,000,000. A new problem, however, faced the Fund-the possibility that the Social Security Act may soon be amended to include non-profit organizations, thus piling a 3% tax upon the 7½% of clerical salaries which Episcopal dioceses pay annually into the Fund...