Word: token
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mockery until Stark won by large majorities in 1934 and 1935. Players like him because he is fast, industrious, accurate. In a profession which usually makes popularity unthink able, he achieved another unprecedented triumph last summer when New York fans presented him with an automobile as a token of esteem. That an automobile, admiration from players and spectators, a blue serge suit and $9,000 a year are still for Dolly Stark inadequate compensations for being an umpire became apparent last week. Appropriating a privilege hitherto reserved for baseball players who consider themselves underpaid, he refused to sign...
...faces replaced in Rome, an ambiguous League policy redirected and an even more paradoxical neutrality policy in the United States overturned. In itself, the lull in African warfare means less than nothing. The quiet is a surface calm. Mussolini's barometer is dropping fast. By the same token, the monarchial barometer is rising...
...High Steward. For this occasion the House of Lords official known as Black Rod will carry not his usual black rod but a white rod, for the reason that after sentence is delivered the Lord High Steward must break Black Rod's white rod across his knee in token that the trial of a peer is over...
...President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, his late spinster Sister Eliza left $2,000 "in recognition of his unfailing generous and constantly loving care during my entire life and in token of the deep affection which I have...
Emperor Power of Trinity sat drawnfaced with his two pet dogs frisking about his feet as Fat Chaps & Lean Chaps concluded their work and Ethiopia's elaborate Seal of The Conquering Lion of Judah was affixed in token of His Majesty's assent. What had he done? It all depended on who Fat Chaps' backers really are. Every undeveloped country is fair game for plausible promoters who go about hinting that they represent du Pont, or De Beers or Krupp. Last week Francis M. Rickett said that his backers were Standard Oil and British capitalists whom...