Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tied to the U. S. acceptance of this bid was a string: the conference must not discuss Reparations, War Debts or specific tariffs. Left open for debate were such matters as silver (but not its remonetization), trade barriers, embargoes, import and export quotas, international credit and tariff policies. The practical, though remote purpose of the conference was, somehow to set world trade going again...
...attacked all British political parties, urging a sort of diluted British Fascism of his own invention. The Oxford audience listened politely when he said that the Laborites were "a party of spouting mouths and clutching hands with no brains." But if the Archbishop of Canterbury had shouted a string of four-letter Saxon expletives they could not have been more shocked than they were at what came next from beneath Novelist Wells's grizzled mustache-an attack on King George...
...minstrel, famed for his "Jim Crow" act. Minstrel Rice died before the song could be used. Lately "This Rose Reminds Me" was rediscovered by Dean J. Rice of Salt Lake City, grandson of Minstrel Rice. Last week it was played on NBC's Carnation Contented Program, by string ensemble with harp...
...string of smart motors swished up the driveway to Mrs. Edward Small Moore's shingled, rambling country home in Roslyn, L. I. one sunny morning last week. Out of the shining automobiles stepped 70 ladies clad brightly, tastefully, expensively. Reckoned by money and prestige, they were the cream of the nation's womanhood, gathered from Maine to Oregon. Inside the Moore house they sat on Early American chairs and ate a chatty meal. Then the ladies repaired to a long drawing room full of roses and tulips. At this point the gathering lost all resemblance to a conventional...
...their choruses, second-string sing ers and orchestra players, Laurence Productions drew largely upon Cleveland tal ent. They assembled 500 performers for Carmen, plus donkeys and mules. To last year's spectacular Aïda, they added 100 new spear-carriers. The small, patient, well-scrubbed elephant of Aïda was present once more, figured also in Tom-Tom. In Die Walkure there were not the usual nine but 17 Valkyries galloping over the mountain. Brünnehilde's eight new sisters were given made-up. Wagnerian-sounding names like "Ritthelle." "Kampfsiege," "Trautschilde." There were real...