Word: knit
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...18th Amendment was ratified by State legislatures and not by the People themselves it was invalid. Old though the broad contention is that the People (i. e. conventions) should have ratified the 18th Amendment rather than the States (i. e. legislatures), Judge Clark's decision was no close-knit legal argument along this familiar line. Discursively he began: "The traditional method of adopting amendments to the U. S. Constitution is challenged. . . . Even if this opinion meets with a cold reception in the Appellate courts, we hope it will at least have the effect of focussing the country...
...said of his adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's bit ter, static War novel is that Mr. Stallings has attempted to interpolate little of his own material. Worst that can be said is that his editing of Hemingway's material is questionable. None of the close-knit Hemingway scenes were without importance: they were all inseparable and significant. By eliminating such memorable sequences as Lieut. Henry's wounding, his escape into Switzerland with Nurse Catherine Barkley (which would have been almost impossible to dramatize), Mr. Stallings has given his play a hurried, ragged, not always coherent atmosphere...
...Count Bethlen," said the London Times, which loves to keep a secret until it is cooked and ready for the British public's breakfast, "wishes to knit closer the traditional bond of friendship between Hungary and Britain and nobody has a better right to speak for his country...
...matter of course and by unanimous vote, Gates W. McGarrah, who resigned as chairman of New York's Federal Reserve Bank to go to Basle was elected last week President and Board Chairman of the B. I. S. As his large, well-knit body eased into the chairman's place, Mr. McGarrah cleared his throat and, with a trace of Scotch burr, sonorously announced as the first item of business that his alternate and technical advisor will be Mr. Leon Fraser, the "continuing expert" who was chief U. S. legal advisor to young Agent General Seymour Parker Gilbert...
Supporters of the House Plan are of the opinion that a revival of such functions as proms, smokers, and dinners will come in the closely knit units that the Houses are expected to prove...