Word: ble
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor General Robert Hayes Gore, father of nine, created a commotion by suggesting to Puerto Ricans that, as their New Deal, landed estates might be split up, rented to small farmers (see p. 14). ¶ To Havana, where U. S. Ambassador Welles was trying-despite continued dou-ble-crossing-to arbitrate bloody differences between Cuba's political ins and outs, the President sent President Gerardo Machado a pleasant but barb-pointed cable: "Restoration of political peace is a necessary and preliminary step on the way to Cuba's economic recovery." ¶ The President was happy to receive...
...Will Rogers, on a cow-pony, cuts figures around the knight on his lumbering charger and finally yanks him off with a rope and drags him round the field as western ranchers used to drag a horse-thief when they caught one. Will Rogers' deliberate awkwardness, his sham ble, mock shyness and ability on horse back, are all ideal for the role, and it does not matter that his drawl is Oklahoma in stead of Connecticut. His personality and his multifarious activities have made him by this time, even to Americans, a figure symbolic of American ism. Next best...
...supposed to have uttered the famed encomium, the truth of which other great men have learned about Roy Howard: "That young man boots." will never get indigestion licking my Aftermath, The court decision con signal firming for the the sale of maddest the Worlds newspaper was scram the ble for circulation and advertising that New York newsmen could recall. Every paper in the city burst forth with great advertisements, bidding for the Worlds' late readers (313,911, morning; 276,267, evening; 491,796 Sunday). The World-Telegram was said to have started out with 750,000 (the Telegram itself...
Rather than try to think up super-scorching things to say about Foch's spiritual son, the editor of L'Oeuvre (Radical) merely quoted these words from Clemenceau : "Weygand is a dangerous man, capa ble in moments of crisis of going...