Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother [Gracie Hall Roosevelt] wanted to go over to look at a barn which the President is interested in changing into a house. As usual, the President thinks it can be done far more economically than the rest of us do. I was glad to have my brother bear me out, but our combined arguments had no effect on the President, who said cheerfully: 'Well, we will wait and see,' with the calm conviction that he could perform miracles...
...George ("Geordie") Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duke of Sutherland, big-gaming, yachting, land-rich peer, who abandoned a Kodiak bear-hunting junket, headed his yacht Sans Peur (Without Fear) toward home and war service...
While western Europe wastes itself in war, Russia will grow rich, powerful and respected, with great advances (thanks to German engineers) in science, technology, education and living standards. Today scornful J. B. and overfattened France grow solicitous of the Bear, who no longer needs them. A year ago these "civilized" democracies (?) discussed using a pound of Bear flesh for appeasement meat. Hitler smacked his lips. The Ukraine! Sick, friendless and with Nippon gnawing his tail, the Bear bid fair to be devoured, and England would have agreed to the death and enslavement of the Russian people in exchange for some...
...Bemelmans tales will bear reading to little tots. One such is the story of Putzi, a premature baby who lived in a jar of alcohol on its parents' mantelpiece, became a hero when his father discovered he was a perfect barometer, sinking to the bottom on approach of bad weather, bobbing to the top, with "a Lilliputian smile and rosy cheeks," at the approach of fair...
...That the use of various seals, coupled with assurances appearing throughout the magazine, "mislead . . . the . . . public into the erroneous belief that all articles advertised . . . or articles which bear the seal in one of its several forms, have been scientifically tested in ... laboratories. . . . In truth and in fact, all the articles . . . have not been tested and approved by any scientific laboratory...