Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effective bid for publicity, it is becoming apparent that beneath the external hullabaloo there is at least some basis for such an indictment. Felix Frankfurter's "hot dogs," the youthful element which he has introduced into the Roosevelt circle, have been using the word "revolution" with careless abandon. Mr. Richberg in several of his speeches has said we are in the midst of one. People acquainted with debonair Rexford Tugwell, knee deep in ideas for economic planning, are not in the least sure that he does not consider Roosevelt another Kerensky. A high official in the administration feels that...
...Good Friday the Reich Bishop offered those pastors who rebelled at the imposition of Nazidom upon their church an iron olive branch: "I admonish them to abandon their perverted craving for martyrdom and submit as a Christian duty. Govern the tongue, that unruly member. The church conflict has filled the mass of our people with astonishment, scorn and bitterness, for they cannot understand why pastors should quarrel. Nothing cures the itch for church politics like a visit to the sick...
...pressure from abroad to change her treatment of the Jews within her borders. . . . Russian experience has been that the presence of Jews within her borders is a perpetual menace not only to the integrity of the country, but to law and order. . . . Not cynically, but seriously, while Russia cannot abandon her restrictions on Jews we are prepared to consider an arrangement by which the United States might cooperate for the transfer of all Jews from Russia to the United States...
Washington, March 25--Sixteen internationally-known bankers and industrialists appealed to all the governments tonight, through the International Chamber of Commerce, to stabilize currencies. The appeal came as rumors grew that France and Switzerland might have to abandon the gold standard...
...next cold. Possessed of woman's prerogative, it varies in temperature and force. Sometimes it merely ceases to function. Should some one take a glass of water some, where in the building, the shower reflects the fact instanter. Above the cubicle's door one well might read, "Abandon hope all ye who enter here." Something must be done about this. Have we no Kohler among our Alumni? Then let a bowl, a basin, be passed about through all House Dining Rooms and let sweet charity flow into it that we may be the godlier. For if results are not forthcoming...