Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Hypocrisy!" shrieked Il Messaggero. "Great Britain has promised a subsidy to the Emperor of Ethiopia to give the Ethiopian troops regular pay." In Rome the Dictator's press office told Italian reporters that "the natives of Ethiopia are so excited that now nothing can stop them. They think they have English support...
...broke, but we are protecting our creditors," said Mr. Raven. "All my resources are going into liquidation of my companies. American silver-buying drained China of her silver, which froze credits, which in turn is paralyzing business." The Chinese Government, having begged and implored President Roosevelt for months to stop kiting the price of silver, desperately imposed the death penalty on Chinese caught smuggling out the vital metal-to sell it abroad at "Roosevelt prices." Last week the U. S. President did something for China, nominated U. S. Minister Nelson Trusler Johnson for the newly-created post of Ambassador...
...merged, sweeping her long lashes at her fellow passengers. Finally an 11-year-old wandered up to request an autograph. This time secretive Greta Garbo vanished for good. In Buffalo, Animal Trainer Clyde Beatty was threatened with arrest by the local S. P. C. A. if he did not stop "prodding and beating" his circus lions. Said the S. P. C. A. agent: "Lions are the nicest and bravest animals in the world." Retorted Lion-Scarred Beatty: "He is perfectly welcome to come into the cage with me and pet the kittens if he thinks they are so tame...
...days later near Bournemouth one William Mitchell, a herdsman, was walking by a lily pond near the late "Rats" house. He saw Mrs. Rattenbury advance slowly into the pond, a dagger in her right hand. "Hi, stop!" cried Herdsman Mitchell but the Sentimental Lyric Writer stabbed herself six times in the breast, finally pierced her heart and slipped with a gush of blood among the lilies...
From his publisher's standpoint Mr. Vivian Tidmarsh was hero of the day. Mr. Tidmarsh, subeditor on the Evening News, showed that his office had learned of Alice Puddifoot's vindication just in time to slip a few lines into the "stop-press" corner of the last edition. The Evening News got off with only one farthing damages...