Word: blight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately Premier Briand had no head for finance. The collapse of the franc drove him back to his favorite post of Foreign Minister. In came great Premier Raymond Poincaré to save the franc, and incidentally to blight the careers of several Briand satellites. Ousted Pierre Laval contrived to get himself elected a Senator from the Department of the Seine (which he has since represented). He dropped back for several years into obscurity as a quiet Independent. Still close to Old Brer Briand, he also made himself close to Young André Tardieu...
...song publisher's mistress is played a little too broadly by June MacCloy. Most of the acid and laughable dialog of the play has been retained, as has the depraved and tuneless anthem, composed by a writer of novelty songs: Should a father's carnal sins Blight the life of babykins? All I ask is: Give our child a name-mean, a last name. My Past (Warner). Pregnancy used to be established in the films by a glimpse of tiny garments. Preliminary activities were intimated by two pairs of shoes out-side a door. Grown slightly more sophisticated...
...debts and reparations, You're a blight on all the nations, You embitter their relations, You're the chief of all causations Of their woes and tribulations, Of the problems that perplex them, Of the ills that grieve and vex them, Of the burdens that oppress them, And the sufferings that distress them, The anxieties that fret them, And the dangers that beset them...
...steel spring and dynamite bone fish of Andros will not appreciate your publicity if it brings down upon them a blight of fish slaughtering pseudo-sportsmen...
...that left her a spiteful cripple. The ghost of Sophie's lover, forbidden her because he was an agnostic, haunted her at last into suicide. Ruth's disastrous first marriage was used as a club to break her spirit. Only Carlotta came through unhurt, unstunted by the blight of her father's love...