Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...task to win brief leisure for this favorite recreation of Britain's best-known brother of the angle and Prime Minister. His method is to get things done by businesslike steps. First, he averted European war by Czechoslovak dismemberment. Second, he won a vote of confidence on this act last week, 366 to 144, in the House of Commons. Third, he averted strife in his Conservative Party by postponing indefinitely the annual Party Conference which was to have been held last week. And fourth, the Prime Minister went fishing in the River Tweed...
...acknowledged that he was a Radical, and was darkly suspected of being both a socialist and a republican -that is, a traitor to Her Majesty Queen Victoria. So disgusted was Punch with the Radical, whom it contemptuously called "Joey," that he was caricatured as a clown, caught in the act of applying a red-hot poker labeled "Socialism" to the behind of a Briton reading the Times with a checkbook under...
...Ministry of Interior is willing to make an exception and issue a special permit for such mixed marriage. Further, the Grand Council, well knowing that Italian males have been prone to "go native" with Ethiopian females, issued a veiled but stern decree for punishment of "anyone who performs any act that might injure the prestige of the Italian people in territories of the Empire." Finally, the Grand Council, taking cognizance of the fact that Britain has for years been extremely reluctant to admit more Jews to Palestine, because of the bloody resistance of the Arabs (see p. 22), made...
...Tiso, to undertake the thankless job of negotiating with Hungary, which has claimed slices of Czechoslovakia. In Slovak areas Hungarians had hoped to find some of that "yearning" for Hungary which the Sudetens felt for Germany. However, as soon as the Slovaks were given some of the chance to act big which they have long been denied in Czechoslovakia, they started being niggardly with Budapest about giving back the Hungarian minority in Slovakia...
Tuffy was a 300-lb. lion owned by Joseph Dobish, Wildwood, N. J. boardwalk sideshow concessionaire. Last year Business-getter Dobish worked up an act called "The Motordrome Wall of Death." In this act, Dobish's wife drove a racing car at breakneck speed around a steep-sided wooden bowl, with Tuffy in a sidecar beside...