Word: upset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward is no Bonnic Prince Charlie full of plots to upset the Government, nor has he shown any but the friendliest feelings toward the brother who took his place. Indeed his silence in Austria compared well with the subtle defamations uttered at conventions by Princes of the Church and with some of the books that rushed to market to capitalize on his misfortune. In return for his service to the Empire in the past and in appreciation of his conduct since abdication, it is not too much to hope that the Government will smile upon him as he prepares...
...represented a gaming table in perspective. Upon this table dancers costumed like cards appeared. While they were shuffled, the orchestra played a little processional. The choreography was strict and classical. Group dances, solos, finales showed the cards being played according to Hoyle. William Dollar, a slippery, mischievous Joker, upset calculations, spoiled the most promising hands, was routed finally by a Royal Flush. When the last strains of music had died away, the audience rose and cheered a composer ingenious enough to have knitted fragments by Rossini, Delibes, Strauss, Ravel, Pugni and himself into a seamless whole...
...annual meeting of the world's biggest private enterprise. One proxy was sent to the office of President Walter Sherman Gifford. Smiling, he read: "Don't let them get you mad, Mr. Gifford." As things turned out, there was little for suave Mr. Gifford to be upset about when he faced 250 A. T. & T. stockholders at the meeting. The older member of the ubiquitous Gilbert family-Lewis-was on hand to ask an embarrassing question about Federal Communications Commission revelations of high rates for equipment charged by A. T. & T.'s manufacturing subsidiary, Western Electric...
...Upset earlier in the year by the Terriers when the Crimson were taken by surprise to the tune of 9-7, Coach Mitchell's forces seem at last to be on the good baseball trail after playing a splendid game against highly touted Holy Cross. Unless they are again hogtied by the deliveries of Bob Leahy they are in a good enough hitting mood to batter out a victory...
...beaten champion Donovan once this winter. Harvard has a threat in this event in the nature of Captain Bill Schmidt, who ran second and third to the Green boys all winter. In the lows Donovan runs up against the returning 1935 champion, James H. Hucker of Cornell, who may upset Donovan's supremacy...