Word: awayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desired to set a new lower par for the sharpshooters, well and good, but do not take all the joy away from the Average Golfer...
Just a year ago, Harold LeClair Ickes. then 64, slipped away from Washington, sailed to Ireland and there, in Dublin, made screaming headlines for London papers by marrying titian-haired Jane Dahlman, 25, of Milwaukee. Last week at a press conference the press-baiting Secretary of the Interior blushed handsomely when asked if Washington gossip was true, that he was once more to become a father (in September).* Replied forthright Mr. Ickes: "I have hopes. It's great to be in public life, isn't it? ... What we need is a little more liberty from the press...
...More likely: the Soviet Union was going to follow an isolationist policy (almost as bad for the British and French). By turning isolationist it would let Herr Hitler know that as long as he keeps away from Russia's vast stretches he need not fear the Red Army. Russia might even supply the Nazis with needed raw materials for conquests...
...year of his greatest triumphs was 1933, when he walked away from the otherwise still-born World Economic Conference in London with the embryo of U. S. recognition of the U.S.S.R. The same year he embarked on a series of non-aggression pacts with every Soviet neighbor except Japan. Scared by Adolf Hitler's "if-I-had-the-Ukraine" line of chatter, he played the game of collective security for all it was worth throughout the dictators' aggressions in Ethiopia, Spain, Austria. Last autumn, the Czecho-Slovak crisis found him again at Geneva proposing joint British-French-Russian...
...smooth-working Varsity eight returned the trimming which Harvey Love's first-year crew handed it over a week ago with interest by pulling away from the Yardling boat by a full six lengths yesterday afternoon...