Word: broken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ablest diplomatic corps in Europe. As Franklin Roosevelt well knows, in Washington hard by the British Embassy, a palatial building is now being completed to house the Apostolic Delegation from the Vatican. Should events go so far that the U. S. decides to renew diplomatic relations (broken off in 1868) with the 108.7-acre Vatican State, only a change of name would be necessary to transform the building into a Papal legation...
...reputation which he gained from his participation in the Tom Mooney commission and the Sacco-Vanzetti trails. In 1932 these interests heaved a sigh of relief when he refused his appointment to the Supreme Bench in Massachusetts. Then came the Court Bill, and he was believed to have broken with Roosevelt...
...Manti-queiras. Near the town of Stio came catastrophe. Again, someone had blundered, for thundering down the mountain through signals came a heavily laden freight. Headlight to headlight the roaring freight and the snorting passenger train met. They disintegrated over the grade like kindling. Soon fire crackled through the broken sticks and torn bodies...
...about sex at first hand. Such accomplishments and wisdom ranked high with his followers: Wickie Winters, scabby-faced, half-dressed, half-wit son of a washerwoman; Cockie Werner, whose only talent was catching frogs; Nutsie Doane, also ordinary, except for a crooked arm, the result of having a broken arm re-broken by his drunken...
...upon; the submerged, intolerable griefs that he forces them to stammer out-these have the kind of horror found in Thomas Mann's famed story Mario and the Magician. Melodramatic, a little shrill, a little unearthly, Here Come the Clowns is like a grotesque tune played on a broken fiddle...