Word: brinkly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wriggling their bare toes in Australia's good earth, the sturdy offspring (he has nine) of Australian Premier Joseph Aloysius Lyons romped and whooped in his garden last week heedless of the fact that their father was perhaps pushing rebellious New South Wales to the brink of insurrection...
Tomorrow. To make these other security assets legal collateral for loans from the Federal Reserve is one major aim of the Glass-Steagall bill. By widening rediscount eligibility, its sponsors hope that banks on the brink of failure can fly into the arms of the Federal Reserve instead of into the arms of Federal receivers. The bill provides that five or more independent banks may take their assets, whatever they may be, to their district Reserve bank and ask for a joint cash loan on them. Whether they get it or not will be up to a three-quarter majority...
...personable, wealthy young man. Beyond waiting for Miss Gaynor to break into song or into the peculiar prancing gait which she affects in moments of exuberance, there is never any suspense. You are aware that before the picture is over. Miss Gaynor and her accomplice will be on the brink of matrimony. They have become engaged to each other in half the civilized countries of the world, always with a vague air of being decidedly astonished at this romantic turn of events. Delicious is a fair example of their work. As soon as Miss Gaynor is seen, as a Scottish...
When Dr. Babcock, a pretty, smartly dressed Rhode Island woman who earned A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees after her husband died, refines her tests to the perfection she seeks, they may be useful, said she last week, to define the brink between madness and mere befuddlement...
Last week most of the dew, dawn and sunshine had vanished from Detroit. Its dole system under Mayor Murphy had brought the city to the brink of bankruptcy. Jobless relief had cost the city $17,000,000. Because of hard times $11,000,000 in taxes remained unpaid. It closed its fiscal year with a $14,500.000 deficit. Ten percent of the population was out of work. Thirty thousand fam-ilies-132,000 individuals-were being carried on the city's relief rolls at a cost of $1,000,000 per month. Fraud and embezzlement had been found...