Word: tinkered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What President Roosevelt had put the Army up against was described by Major Clarence L. Tinker, commanding the western division of the Army airmail service at San Francisco. Said Major Tinker...
...plays for a while which still have a few followers. Then came success with a series of popular plays, but he was rarely heralded by critics as the foremost dramatist until he reached the psycho-analytical period. Here he reached the peak with "Strange Interlude." Soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, doctor, and butcher flocked to this intellectual play. Being intellectual was the fad of that period; you might surreptitiously go to see Clara Bow, but you were "passe" if you couldn't discuss your complexes and O'Neill intelligibly. Then came "Mourning Becomes Electra." The public tried to be classical...
...break his neck instead. Then Stephen quietly suppressed the will by which his brother's estate went to Lady Fearless and her small son Nigel, and took possession himself. Conveniently, Lady Fearless was drowned as her husband had been. Young Nigel, whisked away by an itinerant tinker, was brought up in ignorance of his birth. His new position enabled Stephen to marry well, prosper mightily in business. But he was haunted by his memories, superstitiously felt that his luck was too good to last. At length he fled secretly to the Malay archipelago. There he met an Englishwoman with...
...gingerly about Wall Street for a long time. Several attempts were made to toss it to the public, but in the end Fox Film Corp. came to rest on the broad lap of Chase National Bank (TIME, May 2, 1932 et ante). Chase through its oldtime officer Edward Richmond Tinker tried to run the company from Wall Street, but after four months it called in Paramount's able Sidney Kent, made him president. Chairman Tinker stayed on to work out a financial reorganization. Last week Chase was ready to abandon its position as a patient creditor and frankly take...
...When in 1920 New York passed an enforcement act, it repealed its excise laws for liquor regulation. When in 1923 it repealed the same act, its statutes were left bare of authority to cope with the saloon. In many a state last week governors announced they would not tinker their local laws?or lack of them?until the 18th Amendment was repealed...