Word: steeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team bounded so far ahead when spurred by the bond news that the dollar was yanked from 66 to 70? on foreign exchange. Left Horse Whipped. As soon as the sound-money horse got ahead, the President felt it wise to whip up his Left horse, the steed of inflation. A "high authority'' was at pains to explain in detail to the Associated Press...
...expand. . . . My colleagues talk about serving the public. What public? The men who work for a wage, the clerks, the stenographers, the professional men will be the people to suffer under this unbridled expansion. That is what it is because the rein is so loose that the steed will never stop until he goes over the precipice, killing his rider. "I find I must desist. It is painful to disagree with the occupant of the White House whom I love and respect. But I am one Democrat who is going to vote against this inflation amendment. I may have regret...
That TIME should murder sleep of ignorance, yes - we might even say, Bellerophon like, it has been the stalwart steed of many a noble young thought - but - to base its attack on the one real thought that came out of the depression, upon a lack of credentials!!! How unfortunate, those seeking refuge in the Ark could not prove they had come over on the Mayflower...
...front of the stand on which Dictator Josef Stalin stood rocklike and immobile from 9 a. m. until 7 p. m. (with time out for lunch). Sharp on the stroke of 9 a. m., War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov cantered into the Red Square on a sleek bay steed, three Red Army bands blared the "Internationale" and 60,000 troops began an earth-shaking tramp led by picked units of the Ogpu (secret service). New fighting units this year were eight-wheeled "Speed Tanks" mounting two-inch guns and four-motored bombing planes. Swooping through the sky in "Red Star...
...dithyrambic clap-trap with which the editorial ends is a fitting conclusion to this remarkable display of intelligence: "The silence of agitators who failed to stir is a challenge made by uneasy, yet confident labor, to those in the saddle to apply the crop and spur to a steed from whom much must be expected in the future." Henry Ehrlich...