Word: gold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allied purchases in the U. S. were arms. If the Allies cannot get arms, they will take more material for making arms. And they will buy such materials because (without borrowing in the U. S.) Great Britain and France have some $3,720,000,050 in gold, plus some $3,000,000,000 in U. S. securities etc. with which to pay their bills...
...square-rigged, ruddy-cheeked, sea-trading folk of one of the quaintest old towns in Europe last week dropped their placid and peculiar tasks-such as adding tiny flakes of pure gold leaf to the sparkling, sweet liqueur they sell as Danziger Goldwasser-to come tumbling down the high stoops of their peak-gabled houses for a bucolic joy spree over Adolf Hitler...
...glorious world of business seems to have lost its glamor. The bulls and the bears that once roamed The Street have been harnessed. Morgan, Carnegie, and Rockefeller are fast growing into legends of another age. And the eyes of the bewildered undergraduate look for security instead of pots of gold at the end of every rainbow of fantastic speculation...
Adams and Dunster House waitresses have also donned the colorful new costumes, rumored to have been adopted by House culinary authorities to make economical Gold Coasters and Funsters forget the now high dining rates...
...comedy arises more from well selected epithets and a number of choice expressions and apt phrases than from comedy of situation. This type of humor is bound to pall at times, and it does in this play in the third act. What might be called the "heart of gold scene" is not good, and the "denouncement" is worse, but in such a criticism one tends toward carping...