Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proceed to express it in a Japanese idiom so elaborate and metaphysical that U. S. correspondents could only translate it "He's the top!" With the Cabinet floundering among Japanese terms so high flown that many of them are rarely heard and but partially understood by an average subject of Emperor Hirohito, His Majesty seemed certain to emerge with a newly defined status so breathtaking that it could be fully grasped only by a pure fanatic...
...largest markets, it is a community recreation centre for the city's poor. The area assigned to the nine muralists was 16,000 sq. ft., about 1,800 sq. ft. apiece, to be covered by the end of 1935. Each was permitted to pick his own theme, subject to esthetic supervision by Diego Rivera, topical supervision by the Federal Government's Civic Action Department. Sole theme limitation was that each must have something remotely to do with the market or the Socialistic ideology of Mexico's National Revolutionary Party or both...
...Grilled Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare on the subject of Abyssinia and the League during a one-hour question period in which it was intimated that Great Britain's alibi for abandoning Ethiopia to the Italians may be that Ethiopia is a barbarous, slave-ridden country unworthy of League membership. Declaring that Ethiopians had made slave raids on some of Britain's African colonies, Sir William Davison cried: "Does the Foreign Minister not consider Abyssinia as not having fulfilled the expressed condition [abolition of slavery] on which it was admitted to membership of the League...
...derive much suspense from watching the artist's serious romance with Miss Major endangered temporarily by the jealousy of a mistress (Mady Christians) he is trying to discard and the rage of an elderly doctor (Frank Morgan) who discovers that his young wife (Virginia Bruce) was really the subject of the nude portrait. As a substitute, they may derive amusement from scenes like the one in which "Poldi" Major breaks in on the duchess' petulant gardener to tell him about her conquest; or the one in which Frank Morgan furtively attempts domestic reconciliation...
...Butterick's troubles, Delineator advertising began dropping late in 1930. Its circulation is now 1,700,000 against more than 2,400,000 in 1931. Last January hard-pressed Butterick, invoking Section 776 of the Bankruptcy Act, proposed a plan for reorganization which was last week the subject of acrimonious debate in a Federal Court in Manhattan...