Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editors of the CRIMSON may have once opposed the institution of the House Plan with all their hearts. . . . But now it has been instituted, and is obviously there to stay. Even the most short sighted person must see that support, encouragement, cooperation will avail more now than opposition and ridicule. While to have seized upon such petty circumstances as the wearing of dinner-jackets by their notable guests of honor, and their position at a higher table, is to add absurdity to an already unfortunate editorial...
...Germany faces several extraordinary problems. Her resources are low, and her unemployed number 3,000,000. In this country the wages of one worker may support two people; in Germany the wage scale has been depressed to the lowest point. Russian dealings in wheat might conceivably boost German industry; but it is useless to make any predictions as to when she will emerge from the present worldwide economic depression. Secretary Lamont stated that reparations have been removed from politics, which is inherently nonsense; all five German parties suggested a change in the Young Plan at the last election...
...Woolston, England, lightning entered a metal support in Emily Sophie Sudlow's corset, killed...
...cannot obtain such support for himself or arrange it for some other "moderate," Prime Minister Brüning, according to his closest friends last week, was agreed with Old Paul that they must "save the nation from itself" by adjourning the new Reichstag (only just elected) and embarking on a high-handed program of rule by "executive decree"?in other words Dictatorship, a procedure made quasi-legal by article 48 of the German Constitution conferring on the President "extraordinary powers...
...ladies, gamblers, saloon inhabitants are clothed without anachronism. The plot adheres rather faithfully to the plot of the song. Most variations of the ballad agree that Frankie (a harlot) and Johnnie (a pander) were lovers- "And Oh, my God how they did love." Pledging eternal faithfulness, Frankie proceeds to support Johnnie, attiring him in "hundred-dollar" suits. Then it appears that Johnnie is philandering with a lady called Nellie Bly.* Frankie learns where an assignation is being kept by Johnnie and Nellie. Three times she shoots him ("roota-toot-toot") because she feels "he done her wrong." The ballad...