Word: stricting
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...Strict etiquette consecrates the whole afternoon to such boasting, but Emperor Power of Trinity rose at 3 p. m. to attend Ethiopian patriotic dramas in which the Ethiopians were invariably victorious...
...rulers of West Point had two good reasons for entrusting the social future of the U. S. Army to slim, white-haired George Roberts and his dark-haired, sparkly-eyed wife. The Roberts' had the endorsement of the Oklahoma Military Academy and they were as great sticklers for strict ballroom decorum as "Madame" Vizay. George Roberts, at 19 in Okmulgee, Okla., learned to dance by attending the class which smart Esther Taubee ran for Okmulgee's newly rich oilmen. Soon George Roberts married his teacher, who was about his own age. After the War they opened a school...
...spirit, controlled her magnificent temper, or grown resigned to the ways and morals of the squalid district of the English seaport where she lived. She had met her husband. Dennis, when she jumped from an excursion steamer to save a child, had been saved in turn by him. Strict and unforgiving, she had closed the door on her son Desmond when he took a lovely but mysterious wife who was thought to have been a bad woman. She quarreled with her only daughter, who resented the unconcealed and unashamed favoritism that Mrs. Fury showed for Peter. Mrs. Fury went hungry...
...victory was not tempered by the fact that the rent money will never get nearer Panama than Manhattan since the canal rent is pledged to pay U. S. holders of Panama bonds. President Arias has refused to follow Franklin Roosevelt in one respect: he has been a strict budget-balancer and the rent money will help even if it never reaches home. Lest, however, any U. S. citizen profit by his Government's keeping its word, Panama immediately demanded that its U. S. creditors accept 4% instead of the 6-½% interest promised them...
...Republican lawyer today collects Lincolniana. His name is Benjamin Savage DeBoice. For five years Lawyer DeBoice has served as probate judge in Sangamon County. He helped to send Springfield's ex-Mayor John S. Schnepp to jail for embezzling money from an estate, won a high reputation for strict, conservative decisions governing administrators of estates. To a Springfield trust company which asked his permission to invest the funds of seven estates in U. S. Government bonds-most famed of all conservative investments-he last week gave a blunt "no." Said Probate Judge DeBoice...