Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...with a cutaway we should wear a wing collar and a bow tie. I hate to say it but I fear the vest is not quite smart. It should be cut quite low. If you wish to be informal, wear a sack suit but if you start out to be formal, you must go all the way. This costume simply isn't smart...
...price slump did not daunt Mr. Legge. Sure that rock bottom had been hit, he declared: "If I were a miller, I'd want my tanks filled to capacity at present prices."* He thought if planters would announce agreement to a reduction program, prices would immediately start upward. His first stop was at Indianapolis to confer with growers of winter wheat. Thence his itinerary would take him through Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington...
Confident is the Attorney General that the structure he plans will be in all ways a model institution. Congress last session appropriated $3,850,000 of which $1,700,000 is available for an immediate start. Once authorized and appropriated for, prisons can be built quickly. The "big house" at Lewisburg will be ready for 1,050 guests by July...
...Bright on successive days, Ellsworth Vines put out Frank Shields, twelfth ranking U. S. player and Richard Norris Williams II, twice (1914, 1916) national champion. He beat Shields with a spurt of brilliance after a slow start. In the first set he seemed indifferent. After a point had been settled he would shamble back to serve or receive with an absent expression, bored, disinterested. Once in difficulties, he showed his best game. Against Williams he lost the second set but then roused, ran away with the match. Next day he beat Hunter for the second time in a week. Erratic...
...White (Flying High). "Half-baked . . . childish!" snorted Producer Herman Shumlin (The Last Mile). A League executive tried to conciliate Mr. White: "Forget it, old-timer . . . and help us clean up this rotten situation which has made ticket distribution a 'racket.' " Producer White was adamant. He threatened to start a move among producers that would finish the League, namely, to get all tickets back where they belonged-in box offices. To Attorney General Hamilton Ward of New York went Bernard H. Sandier and William Russell Willcox,* retained as counsel by 23 nonLeague brokers, to procure an order dissolving...