Word: leafing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...opponents are going to let the United States write Canada's tariff act!" he has exclaimed with effective horror upon numerous platforms. He has asked, "Shall this be?" Waving the maple-leaf-embroidered shirt of Canadian patriotism, he has suggested that Mr. King is in effect almost a traitor to the Dominion...
During the week the Textile Converters Association reversed its traditional pro-tariff stand and asked for the bill's rejection. The National Cigar Leaf Tobacco Association did likewise. The American Importers & Exporters Association urged a veto on the ground that the new tariff rates (highest in U. S. history; an average of 41% ad valorem on all dutiable commodities or 20% above the present law) "will cause ill will and reprisals which will make it impossible for us to develop the export trade necessary to the continued prosperity...
...crack airman, served the U. S. Navy for 13 years. Spectacularly he made his exit last week, having resigned in protest against sea-assignment (TIME, April 21). Nothing could have been more characteristic than his parting gesture-the performance of an acrobatic feat never before accomplished: an "inverted falling leaf." Above Anacostia, naval air station, Lieut. Williams rolled a Curtiss Hawk biplane onto its back, throttled the motor, let one wing dip. Wheels to the sky, pilot's head to the ground, the little ship began swinging back and forth, dropping rapidly like an ever-lengthening pendulum. Ingeniously averting...
Author Maugham has written 18 novels, books of short stories, 24 plays. Some of them: Ashenden, or the British Agent, The Casuarina Tree, The Moon and Sixpence, Mrs, Craddock, Of Human Bondage, On a Chinese Screen, The Trembling of a Leaf; (plays) The Circle, East of Suez, The Letter, The Sacred Flame, Rain...
...until last autumn that it was resolved to dress the magazine up and try to make it sell. Founded in 1913, the earliest known Mentor was :a weekly. Each issue was devoted to one particular cultural subject?art, travel, letters. Foliowise, it also contained several loose-leaf rotogravure art reproductions. Then it became a semimonthly, then a monthly. Last September it fell into the capable hands of Hugh Anthony Leamy, a onetime associate editor of Collier...