Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Calling Chancellor Hitler a man bent on achieving Germany's destiny "by fire and sword," calling Japan "the darkest storm cloud on the political horizon," Comrade Litvinoff said flatly: "I disagree with President Roosevelt when he says that only 8% of the people in the world want war. Those 8% are the people in power in certain countries. . . . Between Germany and Japan exists a common spirituality-a desire to fight...
Herreshoff workers had been waiting for weeks. On its own initiative the company had laid down the new boat's lines in the mold loft, ordered lumber and lead. On the syndicate's say-so the first frames for the hull were bent last week...
...wife live down by the Union Station in the Capitol Park Hotel. He acts and dresses like any ordinary businessman, smokes his pipe incessantly, tends quietly and fairly ably to his business as a legislator. His new tax proposals show conclusively that he is no longer bent on "soaking the rich...
Characters: Patriarch Jeeter Lester (Henry Hull), a bent, rickety, boastful, obscene, stealing, lying scion of an old family who has discovered that semi-starvation is the only penalty for doing nothing; his wife Ada (Margaret Wycherly), mother of 16 of whom 13 have forgotten her; her unmanageable harelipped daughter Ellie May, tortured with the abnormal appetites of the deformed; her golden-haired daughter Pearl who somehow manages to remain a wife in name only; Pearl's normal husband Lov who bought her for $7, loves her vainly, beats her moderately; Jeeter and Ada's remaining son Dude whose...
...Henry E. Bent, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, spoke last night before the American Chemical Society...