Word: straightening
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...since the bonds which Mexico has been issuing in order to recompense the former owners of condemned estates are now selling at 29? on the dollar, since Mexico's Secretary of Finance Luis Montes de Oca was already in New York last week trying once more to straighten out his country's overpowering national debt, thoughtful Mexicans applauded the change in policy. Said Señor Calles...
...actors in the scrubwomen drama whose parts range all the way from the "heavy" in quest of the "good" to the song and dance performers, of whom there are only too few, are becoming more and more involved in the plot. Can the co-authors straighten out the parts and the cues? The audience is getting ped and in case the wrong man gets shot, is there a doctor in the house...
Judge Rutherford was born on a Missouri farm, practiced law at Boonville, acquired a circuit judgeship, continued practice in St. Louis, Kansas City. He accompanied the late William Jennings Bryan on his first Presidential campaign tour, announcing him as "appointed by God to straighten out the problems of the world." Mr. Bryan's example inspired Judge Rutherford to wear habitually a black bow tie. In 1916 he succeeded the late Charles Taze Russell of Brooklyn, founder-president of the International Bible Students Association...
...every chance squat Uzcudun had of staying away from them, cheered when, in the first round, Uzcudun spread his legs to keep from falling. After that Uzcudun kept his chin on Von Porat's chest and his elbows in front of his own jaw. Suddenly an elbow would straighten, a fist appear, whirl through the air, land on flesh. Paulino's prestige has been dimmed by recent drubbings handed out by Max Schmeling, Tuffy Griffiths. His victory leaves the heavyweight situation more muddled than ever...
Platonov, but finds he likes him. too well to do it. Finally, when Platonov's talented irresolution has landed everybody in a pretty pickle, and he is willing to do anything possible to make amends, Anna Petrovna's good sense seems about to straighten out the tangle; but Sofya, still madly in love with the worthless fellow, rushes in and shoots him. In spite of this violent finale, the play may be considered a comedy...