Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, grey and 63, Hiram Mann summoned newsmen to his Wall Street office to announce that his long fight was over. Swept along on last month's adjournment tide, a bill appropriating the money to pay his Navyites had slipped through Congress, been signed by President Roosevelt. Figuring that his crusade had cost him about $20,000, Lawyer Mann declared: "It was a hobby. I'd have spent a lot more if I'd had it. It's cheaper than yachts and booze and women; and no headaches." Lawyer Mann's triumph was only a little dimmed...
...there was no stopping the tide. Already that morning Senator Borah had taken Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee firmly in hand, in three hours helped him draft a Neutrality Resolution with provision for a mandatory arms embargo. Called up the next day, it went through the Senate with a unanimous roar that left its sponsors blinking...
...Author Flandrau nevertheless found conforming difficult. Editors lured him with attractive offers. The best of Author Flandrau's anecdotes deal with Satevepost's George Horace Lorimer, "the most insidiously seductive Lorelei of them all ... perched on a rock known as the Curtis Publishing Company overlooking the human tide that ebbs and flows along Independence Square in Philadelphia." Author Flandrau had written pure, sexless, nonalcoholic short stories, a good clean serial called The Diary of a Freshman, when Editor Lorimer wanted him to write the diary of a professor. Author Flandrau fled to Europe. The editor, using "diplomatic...
Jammed with such changes is the current Palestine Gazette which notes that Jews with non-Jewish names are thumbing through the Bible in search of the most authentic and highly Jewish names obtainable. Jewesses who have been called "Fanny" are turning in a great tide to the more beautiful "Zipora...
...duty held him bound, So that not power misled nor ease ensnared him Who had spared himself no more than his seas had spared him!" IX After his lieges, in all his lands, Had laid their hands between his hands And his ships thundered service and devotion, The tide wave, ranging the planet, spoke On all our foreshores as it broke: "Know now what man I gave you-I, the ocean...