Word: afresh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company dates from 1887 when Joseph Schaffner threw in his lot with his distant cousins the Hart boys. After 17 years as a bookkeeper and credit man in a Chicago dry-goods house, Joseph Schaffner decided that the opportunities were limited and, at 40 was about to start afresh in the mortgage business in St. Paul. Joseph Schaffner always said the Hart boys were "wizards' but the rise of Hart Schaffner & Marx tc its present status as a national institution is generally credited to wise, scholarly Mr. Schaffner...
...previous sweeping Rightist drives relied enormously on Italian and German bombers and tanks. Nearly every night last week Madrid put on wild celebrations. Its Defense Junta voted to decorate its chairman General José Miaja "for valor." This wise, owl-bald Spanish professional soldier had to exert himself afresh to check the "overoptimism" against which he is so tart...
That no simple civil war of two Spains, Leftists and Rightists, is being fought, made itself clear again last week as some other Spains became active afresh, notably the Basques and the Catalonians. These regions are violently separatist, even when Spain is at peace. The fact that today Catalonians and Basques are both classed as being with the Leftists of Valencia and Madrid makes them no less rugged individualists...
...prove his point Dr. Darrah went to history, discovered some soft-headed doings by folk generally considered to have been quite hardheaded. "Queen Victoria," he revealed, "commanded that her dead husband's clothing be laid out afresh every evening, also water in his basin, and this astonishing rite was performed with scrupulous regularity for nearly 40 years. . . . [There was also] Disraeli, twice premier of England, whom Lytton Strachey describes as 'a vainglorious creature racked by gout and asthma, dyed and corseted with a curl on his miserable old forehead kept in its place all night by a bandana...
...came to the end of the line, the expediency of decending to the next failed to penetrate his enthusiastic absorption in his subject. Consequently, he continued his line on across the wide expanse of the board, and only when he reached the end of that did he begin afresh. A beautiful examination was the product, but the dreadful irony of it all is that only one third of it appeared in the blue book...