Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning, as the 80 Disobedients again took the path, the village was asleep; not a single cheer resounded. In a nearby hamlet Saint Gandhi called his lonely procession to a halt, gazed up and down the silent, empty street, addressed the blank windows of slumbering houses. "If you do not awake you will be looted by other people, if not by Englishmen...
...elderly British peer, courtly in manner, somewhat beefy, and, in New York, vaguely Jewish. The God of the Mormons shaves his upper lip, and believes in large families and a protective tariff. The God of the Methodists is an agent pro-vacateur, forever fingering his pad of blank warrants. The God of the Baptists is amphibious, and, in some of his aspects, almost identical with the Neptune of the Greeks...
Today is the last day on which life blanks may be sent in for the Senior Album. All men affiliated with the class of 1930 must return a life blank. There are plenty of extra blanks at the Phillips Brooks House and at Leavitt and Peirce...
...Congressional elections in November and the shadow they cast across Republican success. The Senate's long tariff siege was frankly harmful to G. 0. Politics. In sharp contrast to the first year of Woodrow W'ilson, the Hoover record on which its supporters must stand in the campaign is blank, except for Farm Relief, still largely experimental. Unless the monster tariff can be got out of the way Congress is likely to adjourn in June with little else accomplished. Old Guard leadership is shattered. Where the President stands on tariff rates is anybody's guess. The House has lost interest...
...epilog was a jolly lampoon of contemporary foibles, political, artistic, social. Two constables debated upon the dangerous possibilities of two paintings, one blank, one hung upside down.* Three party leaders, a Roman (Stanley Baldwin), a Druid (David Lloyd George), and a Scotchman (Ramsay MacDonald), "fitted with clockwork and vocal powers," directed electoral addresses at Joan Bull (Britain's "flapper vote"), who had to choose between them...