Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dollar or the issuance of $129 worth of silver certificates against $50 (market value) of silver are similar tricks which Mr. Morgenthau may be tempted to use to pay for the New Deal. No sign has he given yet of desiring to use them, for they would scare capital, upset the market for his bonds. But the temptation will be ever present. For the alternative, higher taxes, will stir up popular opposition and a good part of the Brain Trust fears that their effect would be deflationary...
...Massachusetts Bay for James Roosevelt, eldest son of the President. Nine hours later Sailor Roosevelt and six companions, blown off the course of a Gloucester-Provincetown race, put in at Portland, Me., in the yacht Black Arrow. Said Son James: "I don't know what there was to be upset over. The Black Arrow is as sound as a church. We just had a little blow and we hove...
...were permitted to continue making absinthe for export. France wasn't worked about what absinthe did to anybody except the French in France! As a matter of fact one, two or three drinks of absinthe a day never hurt anybody. Absinthe has definite medicinal properties. It will quiet an upset stomach...
...whose wife is expecting her twelfth. There is the old sculptor, Stirling, always welcome. It looks like a good summer among friends. Nor would Rita Woodruff's affair with the Polish boy who sings weird songs, or the youthful infatuation of Judith Crawford for Bill Woodruff (aged 46), upset the usual harmony. But there is a newcomer, Mrs. Fernanda Milbank, who leases "The Poplars" and arrives with her spoiled, affected, unhappy little daughter, Geraldine...
...surprised to see her execute the most dignified fall of the week in her match with Betty Nuthall of England, even more surprised when she defeated England's one-time No. 1 player, 6-4, 6-4. Against tall, statuesque Dorothy Andrus. the Baroness tried to contrive another upset, failed...