Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be sorry that the Mercury has come to be such a vessel. Its function, basting the prosperous and needling the Rotarian, is outlived in time when Rotarians are impecunious and craven and the imbecilities of their heyday clotured by depression. The protuberances which the Mercury swatted have largely sunk back into the primeval slime from which they came; and those who liked to see them swatted have turned their minds to other things. But to identify the decline of the Mercury with the decline of Mr. Mencken is a sorry fallacy; one was an instrument fitted...
When perky little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss announced that he was going to reshape the Government of Austria, thus necessitating a new Constitution, the various leaders who had sunk their differences to help him fight Hitlerism in Austria rushed their several ways back to their assorted parties (TIME, Sept. 25). Heimwehr Leader Prince von Starhemberg shouted that unless the Chancellor's projected "Christian Corporative State" turned out to be 100% Fascist he and his followers would refuse to support it. Agrarian Leader Franz Winkler, defender of democracy, cried, "We are not going to fight Naziism, merely to help Austro-Fascism...
...have not been ordered to Havana. ... The Cuban situation will continue to be handled from Washington by the President." Secretary Swanson's junket was further deflated 48 hours later when the Indianapolis swung around Morro Castle and dropped anchor almost over the spot where the Maine was sunk in Havana Harbor. At sight of the big grey man-o'-war excited Cubans along the waterfront began to shout: "Don't welcome these Americans! They've come to kill us." A white launch put out to the cruiser, carrying an Embassy secretary and the U. S. military...
...continues to meet with practical objections. As background for a futuristic cinema it functions admirably. F. P. 1 is therefore exciting and at times interestingly realistic. Major Ellissen (Conrad Veidt) is an air hero riding the crest of his publicity. His best friend Captain Droste (Leslie Fenton) is sunk in the obscurity of an inventor's workroom. Ellissen uses his position to call attention to Droste's plan for a seadrome, persuades the Lennartz shipbuilding firm to construct it. Claire Lennartz (Jill Esmond) also falls a victim to his persuasiveness until he starts on a non-stop flight...
...Guardian Trust had affiliated security and real estate companies which it used to conceal losses including between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 sunk in the Hollenden Hotel...