Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doctrinal War- As a Socialist, Premier Blum touched off his heaviest guns against the crusade to destroy Bolshevism now simultaneously envisioned by Realmleader Hitler and Pope Pius XI. "Although she keeps her full confidence in the age-old power to spread her influence, France," cried her Premier, "does not claim to impose on any people the principles of government that she believes wisest and justest. She respects their sovereignty as she expects them to respect hers. France rejects utterly the idea of wars of propaganda and wars of reprisal. The causes of war that weigh on the world are already...
...appetite, which is their principal object; whoever believes they taste good, like German sweets, is making a mistake. English sweets taste solely like sugar or chocolate. They can drug gnawing hunger and at the same time spoil the teeth (about 50% of the people over 40 years of age in England have false teeth...
...President Lowell, whose age and deafness lately cost him his driver's license (TIME. Sept. 14) had been vainly trying to follow the speeches by reading advance press copies stuffed under his coat. When his turn came he jumped up. scooted to the front of the platform, croaked: "I have heard a great deal of talk about the peril to our institutions and the peril to freedom in our modern world today. From what I know of the lessons of history, our institutions and our freedom are not in peril today. . . . What I have learned from history is that...
...Diego, Calif, last week, on his first long vacation in 46 years, onetime Headmaster Taft kept busy by writing articles on the Civil Service and the Merit System, his old-age hobby. Recently a secretary at Massachusetts' Worcester Academy heard that he was "leaving Taft." hopefully sent him a pupil's application blank. Horace Dutton Taft gravely filled it out, gave his age as 74, replied that he "enjoyed reading very much," chuckling sent the blank back to Worcester...
...finished her next one in Biarritz. To get her back. Sam worked with the same uncompromising power that had made him a motor tycoon, but their reconciliation was interrupted by Kurt (Gregory Gave). This time she asked for a divorce. Kurt, she felt sure, would extirpate the middle age she dreaded so, and which Sam seemed so ready to accept. A footsore, lonely Sam was being comforted in Italy by the platonic favors of a friendly expatriate named Edith Cortright (Mary Astor) when Kurt's mother told Fran why the old wives of young husbands are invariably miserable. From...