Word: dawesian
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...seem to be showing improvement," he said. "But in time the larger ones must necessarily follow. ... I would attribute much more importance to the increase in electric power consumption in the country during the last two weeks than to stock or bond quotations." Only factors tending to discredit this Dawesian cheer last week were his past record and the still-sagging index of business conditions. In General Dawes's record are the following utterances: "People do not realize that conditions are gradually improving." June 5, 1930. "It [the moratorium] is an augury of improved financial conditions." June...
...seat at the table and asked his neighbor's name the latter replied, 'I am Jellicoe.'"* General Dawes grinned and puffed his hubblebubble pipe (christened by the British press "Old Underslung"). Edward of Wales tactfully produced a pipe from his own coattails, borrowed some of the Dawesian tobacco...
...English newsman inquired if the British publi; were to enjoy the famed, picturesque Dawesian vocabulary. "Hell's bells, no!" said the discreetly indiscreet Ambassador. "I'm a diplomat now. I've got to don kid glove manners...
...Atherton, Chargé d'Affaires of the U. S. Embassy in London, helped signalize the beginning of the Dawesian regime by saying he would name his newborn daughter Helen Maria, after the most widely publicized expletive...
...Dawes rushed out of the vice presidency with a farewell speech in which he swung his arms, shot his cuffs and shouted that he took back nothing he had said about the Senate rules. This time it was Charles Curtis and his little vice presidential speech that the Dawesian diatribe dwarfed. But where embarrassment was four years ago, there was only laughter this time. It was a self-burlesque, a Dawesian jape...
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