Word: thin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without division the sober Senators of the Irish Free State passed a resolution last week asking thin-necked President Eamon de Valera. of whom they do not approve, to negotiate with Great Britain to settle Ireland's most urgent problem immediately: Whether the Free State is to cease remitting annuities to the British Government for estates of British and Irish landlords divided and sold on the installment plan to Irish tenants. The Senators might as well have saved their breath. President de Valera pushed a ?2,000,000 emergency appropriation through the Dail for the establishment of new industries...
...Professor de Schweinitz at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor William Holland Wilmer at Johns Hopkins, Professor John Martin Wheeler of Columbia, and their compeers. U. S. eye surgeons have developed a marvelously precise technique. Their scalpels are slim. Their scissors resemble manicuring scissors. Needles are feather light, thread gossamer thin...
...comply. Those 89 Communists represent over 5,000,000 voters of a very dangerous temper. The Communist Deputies will be extremely useful to Herr von Papen from time to time in keeping the Hitlerites in their place. That being so, the balance of power last week was in the thin, capable hands of ascetic former Chancellor Heinrich Brüning. His personal party, the Catholic Centrists, had made good their campaign slogan "Back to Büning!" (see cut) to the extent of nine seats over 1930. The Socialists, his former opponents, were willing to accept him as a leader...
Subjects already worn thin from talk were talked over again at length last week by the executive council of the American Federation of Labor before it closed its fortnight's session at Atlantic City. Rehashed were the six-hour day, the five-day week, more jobs to be made by Congress, the Government's payless furlough plan. The council flayed both Republican and Democratic platforms for being "vague and extremely disappointing" to Labor but, always nonpartisan, endorsed no nominee for the Presidency...
...what promised to be the last day of the session Commander Waters led thousands of his B. E. F. to the Capitol to protest adjournment. Barred from the plaza by a thin line of police, the veterans were at first good-natured and docile. When a truck dumped a load of bricks ordered for fireproofing a sub-basement of the Capitol, they roared with laughter...