Word: wildest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well-wishers, salesmen, and returned $2,133.90 to the County Relief Board. They paid their debts, set aside $57,588 for income tax, redeemed the precious things they had pawned. Then they drew a deep breath and cautiously began to acquire a few of the things which, in their wildest moments, they had dreamed about. Pearl got her new home ($3,000) and furniture. Ben got a Packard; Frances, 10, the whole set of Wizard of Oz books, Ben Jr., 6, new clothes. When they wanted fried chicken, they had fried chicken. But no diamond rings, no champagne, no bottle...
...average American community, or even to New York debutantes, is greater than the Dies Committee itself could imagine. Of all the great oaths in history, none have gone so far. Even the Ten Commandments included only "obedience." What means the revolutionists will use to impose "chastity" is beyond the wildest imagination. Already they seem to have made one step towards the opposite direction by pointing the Czarist "drang nach" Wellesley, Smith and Vassar. The Muscovite Maidens--open to all girls of White Russian blood or sentiments--will for the moment continue their activities of "making and wrapping bandages...
...yard in Philadelphia. On the west coast, where last spring the U. S. Navy had tried unsuccessfully to buy Bethlehem Steel's Hunters Point Drydock in San Francisco harbor, and where Admiral Land is determined to build two new shipyards, the rush to restore obsolete capacity was wildest. Western Pipe and Steel, a small steel fabricator which did only a $5,336,034 gross business last year, booked a $10,635,000 order from Chairman-Admiral Land, began to spend $400,000 to build four new ways, re-dredge the channel at its long unused yard in South...
...wildest week he had seen since he became President of the New York Stock Exchange in July 1938, steady, youthful William McChesney Martin Jr. went on the air, more to sound a warning to reckless speculators than to felicitate brokers on sudden prosperity. Said he: "The Exchange . . . requires that every company listing securities on this market provide essential information as to its operations, earnings and financial condition in order that this may be available for the investor. May I appeal to you earnestly to avail yourself of this factual material...
...Iron Mask (United Artists-Edward Small) is a sword-rattling, Dumascene version of one of the wildest stabs ever made at history by that extravagant Romancer Alexander Dumas. Its hypothesis: that when Louis XIII's good Queen Anne was brought to bed in 1638, she gave birth to twins. Because dynastically two heirs would have been worse than none, the King reared one son as the future Louis XIV, palmed off the other as the son of his loyal Gascon guard, d'Artagnan (Warren William...