Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dead and a new world that was not fully born, whom would the discerning and alert U. S. citizen pick as Man of the Year? Notably barren of candidates was the British Commonwealth. Pious Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's London Economic Conference was a notorious fiasco. In rapid succession, France dealt and discarded three Cabinets in twelve months, produced no leader sufficiently bold or capable to rescue her from the climbing quicksands of insolvency. In Russia Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was a hero for his success in bringing about . S. recognition of the U. S. S. R., but that country...
Even this diplomatic ectoplasm was promptly challenged by ex-Brain-Trusty Raymond Moley. Speaking in Manhattan Professor Moley declared that the success of the President's recovery program demands the prop of selectively higher tariffs. "This has made it necessary," said Professor Moley, "to defer and perhaps to blast the hopes of old-fashioned Democrats who cherish the belief that social justice can only come through more international trade...
...Baseballer Christy Mathewson ("yellow streak"). In the long list from "aasvogel" to "zooming" some U. S. examples: "Speak-easy" (1889): "Yup. U.S. Variant of yep, yes" (1906); "Razz [short for Razzberry]. Disapproval expressed by hissing or booing directed against an actor or other person" (1926); "Wow. A 'great success'" (1927); "Zipper" (1925); "Vamp...
...advertise the success of the loan in the United States and do not speak of America's inflation policy. ¶"Reproduce extensively the comments of the foreign Press calling attention to the Tightness of the course followed by Italy. ¶"Reprint from The Daily Mail the article Will France Go Fascist? by Huddleston. ¶"Do not make up the paper in such a way as to have all the reports of accidents and crimes follow one another, for it is not desirable to fill half-pages with catastrophic news. ¶"Warning is hereby given to abstain from using...
Many will think it open to question that the unity of the houses, and the assimilation of graduates and tutors into them, are no more important than the presence of beer. There may be tutors so dedicated to the success of the house plain that they will sacrifice their new privilege, but the record of the tutors' tables, of their healthy life and stubborn, imposed death, indicates that such tutors are in the minority. The graduate students, whose interest is less direct, cannot be expected to eschew beer at meals in the tutorial cause; the bulk of undergraduates over twenty...