Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facts remain that some thousands of people have lost some billions of dollars, and some others have made, or stand to make nearly as much. It is almost inconceivable that business conditions will not be affected in some way by this great decrease in the public's purchasing power--in spite of reassuring messages by President Hoover and it would seem a reasonable guess that luxury lines and those trades which have padded their sales with the somewhat artificial methods of installment buying will feel such ill-effects as are developed...
...terrible hours Senator Bingham spent on the witness stand before the Senate Lobby Committee explaining, trying to explain and justify Eyanson. Savage and sneering was his examination by Senators Walsh, Caraway and Blaine. When he attempted to speak in self-defense, Senator Walsh jerked him up with: "The trouble you're in now is due to the fact that you talk too much." He writhed in his chair and his cheeks were crimson in contrast to his white hair as the investigators spoke of "falsification" and "serving two masters...
...Senator Bingham defended Eyanson as a "good teacher," denied that he actually lobbied, made much of the technicality that he had not personally cashed his Senate pay checks. In the end, though, Senator Bingham was concerned into the admission that: "I probably made a mistake." He stepped from the stand a very wilted and word-bruised Senator. His colleagues, however, had scant sympathy for him. He has never been a popular member of the Senate because he attempts to manage debate in the same wise-teacher-and-drill-pupil manner he conducted his classes in South American history at Yale...
Lobbyist Eyanson took the stand but could add little to the story his employer had told the day before. He could see nothing wrong in the "service" he rendered. So evasive was his testimony that Senator Walsh charged him with deliberately developing a "feeble memory...
Once again in the third stanza did the Harvard combination get inside the Green 10-yard line, but the attack stalled. From this point on Dartmouth and Marsters were supreme, except for one determined Crimson stand, beneath its own goal posts. The ball went to Harvard on downs. Potter kicked out 25 yards, and on the next play Marsters outran the field for a score. Coach Horween's players faded from the picture as the Indians, always on the attack well in enemy territory, riddled the Crimson, defense for there more touch downs...