Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their 'Blue Sultan" are a leaden blue from head to toe. When they buy the indigo cottonades for their robes, they wet their thumbs and rub them over the cloth to make sure the dye is not fast. In the wet coastal heat they sweat the dye from the cloth to their skins. No true Blue Woman would look at a man who was not also a good deep blue. The Blue Men's rebellion flickers 200 mi. south of the main Berber rebellion around Marrakesh. Their chief capitals, fortified oases, are Tiiznit, Smara and Kerdous. Their last...
...Sweat beaded the folded hands of Argentine farmers in their pews. Sweat wilted the collar of the priest in the sanctuary. In an Indian summer hot beyond measure, the villagers of San Luis were trying to worship God. Father Juan Guerrera blessed the bread and wine. The villagers trailed forward to the altar rail to receive the Communion...
...there is going to be no middle ground; no return to normal and unsubsidized prosperity, by 1936. What success the administration has had so far in effecting an upturn in business has been quite independent of all the blood and sweat of the NRA and the codes; has, on the contrary, been only proportional to the amount of money practically created and spent by the government in wages or contracts leading to wages. Only the "artificial" remedies have had any real and lasting effect. And any attempt to substitute for them the bad economics and ballyhoo of the N.R.A...
...second, fussiness to the point of boycotting his club for exactly one week when anything gave him the slightest offense there. Stillman's own peculiarities were unlovable. He sometimes shaved three times a day, rarely spoke at his excessively formal dinner table, kept the chef in a cold sweat by rating the percentage of his approval on each item of the menu. The Author. John Kennedy Winkler, born in Camden, S. C. 43 years ago, moved to Manhattan, went to high school there, got a job with the New York American when he was 18. Unlike most newsmen...
Many features of the N.R.A. are excellent: the recovery, Administration training, working hours, thereby eliminating the sweat shop, it nationalizes labor legislation, it abolishes child labor and annual it helps destroy unfair competitive practices. But in spite of all these virtues, said Edward S. Mason, Associate Professor of Economics, in an interviwe with the CRIMSON, "I am decidedly to the N.R.A...