Word: wiltedness
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That meeting was the cold-soberest convention the Guild had ever held. Through five sweltering, grueling days, from early morning till after the bars closed, wilted, red-eyed delegates hustled from smoke-filled caucus rooms to committee meetings, to corridor corners, to tense, bitter floor debate in the grand ballroom...
"The underwriting community wilted and reeled," reported the sympathetic New York Herald Tribune in telling how Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones last week offered to bid for public utility bond issues. "Investment bankers . . . saw the RFC as a potential competitor who could fix terms and rates, and put them entirely...
Not to be outdone, the draft-board chairman told newsmen he had "special confidence in Mr. Rockefeller's integrity and ability," named him to lead a contingent of 30 men on a subway ride to the induction centre. Rockefeller squirmed, carefully refrained from giving any orders. Photographers went with...
Cuba's sticky tropical heat hung heavily over Havana last week, wilted the neat white suits of solemn Pan-American Conference delegates, kindled explosive oaths in the voices of bustling foreign newsmen, sent little rivulets of perspiration streaming down the beaming faces of 5,000 convening Lions. But the...
In the first demonstration had marched such men as Sumner Welles, Under Secretary of State, making his quadrennial obeisance to democracy, forcing a wan smile as the Kelly hoodlums crumpled his creases, his correct collar wilted and even askew. But the second demonstration was given over to the "muggs," with...