Word: subbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their home ports. British papers glossed over the next few hours: they were the tensest in the entire affair. Ringleaders refused to believe that once at sea they would not be sent to distant stations in punishment. It took two hours to get the anchors up. Grim laced sub-lieutenants slipped into their lockers for side arms. Correspondents passed over what happened below decks before the fleet steamed for home in one portentous sentence: "Officers were obliged to employ intensive persuasion...
...story relates the adventures of a famed actress (Muriel Kirkland of Strictly Dishonorable and The Greeks Had a Word for It) who is pursued by the richest merchant in all Hungary (Ernest Glendenning) and a poor young engineer (Walter Abel). It takes four padded scenes, in which sub-characters pop in and out with the sombre precision of a cuckoo clock, and the conclusive click of a train gate to force the right pair into each other's arms...
...promotion from the sub-Cabinet followed the death of Secretary of War James William Good. For the post he had ample qualifications: 1) an A. E. F. War record that won him a citation for bravery; 2) a good knowledge of War Department routine; 3) a smart political head; 4) a bright and engaging personality to color an otherwise sombre Cabinet...
...Treasury affairs, so complete is "the old man's" confidence in his judgment that Mr. Mellon has become a sort of Secretary-emeritus. Undersecretary Mills is politically ambitious. He yearns to sit in the U. S. Senate from New York, provided of course he is not elevated from the sub-Cabinet in the meantime upon Mr. Mellon's retirement. His new geniality is political. His slant on public questions is political. The angle of his cigar is political. But the cigar, and the social product behind it, are still perfecto...
...since the greatest number of people who had ever looked upon the same corpse marched for five days in sub-zero weather past the bier of LENIN in Moscow had there been such a funeral as Raditch's. Result of his death: Croatian opposition to the rule of King Alexander has markedly decreased...