Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...avert an overthrow of the Japanese Constitution, an upset which loomed as a distinct possibility, the aged Prince Saionji came clop-clopping on his wooden sandals back into Japan's political arena last week. Crisis factors which perplexed this last of the Genro or "Elder Statesmen" and made Prince Saionji delay for three whole days his advice to the Sublime Emperor included...
...England last week when six U. S. lady golfers upset six English ladies in three two-ball foursomes, the English game. Then in the middle of the singles a rain came driving down, it was just England in May, and the English ladies were at home. Observers predicted an English victory in the rain. On the drenched hills and dales of the Wentworth course in Surrey the three ranking Americans were rained under. Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare took a routine beating 6 & 4 from England's poker-faced Joyce Wethered, rated the world's greatest woman golfer. Pretty...
...skyscraper and treasure chest were pleasant things. The reality was not. It was the same reality which has caused many a semi-retired executive to return to his desk, including John North Willys. Errett Lobban Cord, Henry Holiday Timken, Otto Hermann Kahn. It was the reality which has so upset Mr. Doherty's fellow utilitarian, Samuel Insull...
Senor Davila ceased to be Ambassador and returned to Santiago when the Chilean Government of President Carlos Ibanez was upset by a coup d'état (TIME, Aug 3). Last week the new government of President Agustin Justo tried to suppress the Davila manifesto, stigmatized it as revolutionary. Senor Davila, who thought it best to quit his handsome home and go into hiding, declared in his manifesto, "Present conditions in Chile warrant a trial of State Socialism adapted to our national peculiarities. If we can adopt the useful residue of the French revolution, to mold our primitive political system...
...word, M. Herriot's party might be called "Liberal," has long been tantalizingly close to power. A swing in the French electorate is generally slow, but all M. Herriot needed was that the mass of voters should swing last week slightly to the Left-just far enough to upset Premier Tardieu's Right-Centre coalition and make it possible for Mayor Herriot to get together a Left-Centre coalition with himself as Premier. Experts agreed that a swing of only 40 seats to Right or Left in the Chamber might decide the issue-this with 3,617 candidates...