Word: arenal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...signed in 1928. The inference is that no power quite dares to ignore it. They wage only undeclared wars-and at least the piece of parchment is inviolate. . . . No more withdrawal of ambassadors, no more neat little ultimatums expiring at midnight. Instead, calculated or swift attack. Instead, wars that aren't called wars, and peace that isn't peace. . . . There have been three undeclared wars since the year 1935 [Ethiopia, Spain, China...
...extremely old and questionable anecdote which Mr. Miller began to tell, then brought down the breathless house by glancing at the Royal Box and breaking off "No, no! I can't tell this one tonight!" Instead Max told the one about the girl who said to him "Aren't you ugly...
...Club, cats, mice and rats were reduced to an uncomfortable common denominator. To naive news reporters who supposed the show would be a one-sided Saturnalian feast, Rev. R. W. Ferrier of Stockport, N. Y., moving spirit of the Mouse Fanciers, boasted: "The rats and mice in this show aren't nervous, as you sentimentally suppose...
Even with the entrance upon the scene of an enthusiastic and sympathetic female, purblind to college traditions and feuds, the tension was unrelieved. Crossing Dillon Field, Cousin Arthur espied the red jerseys of Crimson players. "Rather conservative up here, aren't you?" he asked Uncle Henry. The West Virginia lass said: "Why, I would say red was a very bright color and quite pretty, wouldn't you?" Cousin Arthur stared a little closer at the picture of Captain Frank in the H.A.A. News. Suddenly the Vagabond conceived a way to quiet three birds with one slap. "Pardon me," he said...
...grown to expect a modicum of Yankee Doodle from Actor Cohan on any stage. the President closes the show with a typical Fourth of July speech about the U. S.. "A country where, if things are wrong you can get right out and talk about them. And . . . there aren't many countries like that left in the world...