Word: circularity
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Recriminations. The House's debate was fanged with many a poisonous word, mostly spewed at the Anti-Saloon League and its attempt to dominate the House by a circular letter from Dr. McBride. Dr. McBride sat in the visitors' gallery, facing the Speaker and behind the festooned clock, through which for years Wayne B. Wheeler used to peek out as his minions did his will on the floor below...
Señor Sanchez Guerra has been living in Paris for some years, and, last week, he reached Valencia from France on a small especially chartered steamer?two days late. The delay?occasioned by a breakdown of the steamer?necessitated a circular telegram to revolt leaders throughout Spain, ordering postponement. Apparently the garrison at Ciudad failed to receive the order, went off halfcocked, and thus revealed the plot to the government...
...rumor was built an even grander story of a billion-dollar trust, backed by Mr. Cutten and his associates, and entering many key industries with a specialized investment trust for each. Thus, Petroleum Corp. would be the oil section and the proposed motor trust the automobile section of a "circular" trust in many fields and on gigantic scales...
When puzzled U. S. editors cabled their doubts to Paris, the statement of M. Poincaré was irascibly repeated by his Chef de Cabinet. Thereupon a circular order was sent out by leading U. S. news services to all correspondents: "Keep on lookout for Young." As though he had been Charlie Ross, the wilfully elusive Chief Executive of two huge corporations was sought for everywhere that...
Presumably this circular reminder meant that some Ambassadors or Ministers have recently been so obtuse as to bid plump and pudgy Dr. Stresemann to their 9 o'clock banquets, forgetting entirely that his once bibulous and night-owlish habits have completely altered since he barely escaped Death (TIME, May 28) from a prolonged and acute kidney attack...