Word: straighten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Count Stephen Bethlen von Bethlen, onetime Premier of Hungary, decided last week that trying to straighten out the problems of a mad world was a waste of time, announced his retirement from politics. "Nowadays," said he, "only those who breakfast on Jews, lunch on aristocrats, and after dinner deal out fortunes and properties not belonging to them are national heroes. I am no match for them...
...their undying love for the Albanians; 2) King Zog, heretofore an unusually obliging Italian puppet, had recently shown ingratitude; 3) King Zog had been hoarding Italian loans meant to develop the country for his own private uses; 4) Prominent Albanians had pleaded with Dictator Mussolini to come over and straighten things out. Of all the Italian explanations, the best was that Rome had a "sacred right" there because Albania was subdued by Romans in 229 B.C. So, for that matter, was Britain...
...young Frankfurter met again in Wartime Washington, Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Frankfurter as a legal jack-of-all-trades who wound up as assistant and right-hand man to Secretary of War Newton Baker. Both were members of the War Labor Policies Board, set up to straighten out the employment conditions of the overworked Government agencies and industries with Government contracts. Before returning to Harvard, Frankfurter thoroughly enjoyed himself as one of the brighter apostles of Wilson's "New Freedom." With a group of cronies he lived, entertained and talked in a house on 19th Street...
William Schmidt has cooked 25,000 meals for himself on the same wood stove. Typical repast: "fish chowder" (boiled onions, rice, a can of sardines). William Schmidt, 68, is knotty with muscle and so bent from years and decades of working in a tunnel that he can hardly straighten up. But last week mining men were saying that he had accomplished the greatest one-man mining achievement in the history of engineering...
...over the bowed legs of her pretty, undernourished child. Several months ago she summoned all her courage and fled with six-year-old Annabelle to the office of Dr. Robert Lemon Eastman. Trembling with fear, she pointed to Annabelle's legs, indicated that she wanted Dr. Eastman to straighten them. The surprised physician examined the child, later went to Columbus to tell psychologists at Ohio State University about the remarkable pair...