Word: wilted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than 14 steel issues broke into new high ground. One was U. S. Steel preferred which soared to 100¾, to sink only three-fourths of a point after earnings were announced. Reason was the counter-seasonal boom in steel. While everyone supposed that, as usual, steel operations would wilt in July, late July production turned out to be nearly a record for midsummer. And last week the boom rumbled into August...
...Hearsts. Internationalism may or may not be born to blush unseen in this ugly age: no question but it's a worthwhile goal. Yet to seek it open-mouthed, like a herd of whimpering rabbits that can't see the forest for the dandelions, like the tiger-lilies that wilt away their stamen in anti-war meetings, like the parlor pussies mewing about the third international in the upper rooms of Adams House, to seek peace thusly in the modern saturnalia of all the other more valid causes of war, high tariffs, monetary friction, Father Coughlins, economic nationalism...
...business all through him. He then gets to know the vases and how to make up his piece so that it fits. . . . Be sure to choose a florist who has fresh, first class merchandise. 'Seconds' are noticeably inferior when placed on the altar, and they wilt rapidly...
Other members of the committee are: Charles Francis Adams '88, Dr. Fred B. Lund '88, Patrick T. Campbell '93, Abram D. Wilt, Jr. '03, Perry D. Smith '11, Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen; Thomas H. Bilodeau, Jr. '87, and Herbert M. Irwin...
...couple of female bluebloods from Long Island on a boat. There is also the affair of a smuggled ring and a liaison between the girls' father and a theatrical baggage. Jack McGowan, master of the "situation gag" rather than the outright nifty, has written a book whose wheezes wilt on paper...