Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HAVE you ever had that disposing before Christmas, teaching You know the one I inform what shall I buy my room mate. Or what shall I buy the boy friend (or girl-friend)? That blank moment when you would just as soon jump into the next river as look at another gift shop. Along with a few of our editorial aides, we have taken all of the grief out of this year's Christmas buying with a finely chosen (we were going to say something about a fine-toothed comb, but who ever heard of combing a book?) list...
...correct thing to do was to send his son to Harvard. For an autogyro piloted by Leslie B. Cooper, a Princeton graduate, towed a long red advertisement, "Send Your Son to Harvard," over the Bowl before the game. Mr. Cooper, chased to the ground at the airport, refused point-blank to say who was paying for the advertisement. He was working for Roosevelt Field, he said, and the contract for the job was nobody's business. "It's bad enough for a Princeton man to have to do it," he added. "Heaven only knows what they will...
...easy, conversational tone the President said that he had gratifying news from the iron, steel and textile industries about the workings of the NRA. This produced blank stares only until the quicker-witted correspondents started to laugh at the President's little joke. Seriously he then announced the exchange at 11:50 p. m. the night before of five sets of diplomatic notes at the White House between himself and chubby, thick-tongued Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Secretary of State Hull's absence from the U. S. left...
...Hearkened in blank amazement as Laborite Morgan Jones, who had gone to the House distraught from the sick bed of his dying daughter, hurled wildly at British Nobel Peaceman Sir Austen Chamberlain the charge that "By his speeches he encouraged the high-handed policy of Japan in Manchuria...
Grimly French statesmen waited to see what, if anything, Chancellor Hitler would write on the blank check thus signed over to him last week by German voters. In his "Heads will roll in the sand" declaration he promised that when he came to power his government would "seek to abrogate or revise the Treaty [of Versailles] by diplomatic negotiations. I solemnly assert that if these fail we shall proceed to ignore or circumvent the Treaty, with legal means if possible; failing that with illegal means. The world may call that 'illegal' but I am answerable solely...