Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia had shipped 17½ tons of gold to Germany. At first the British Foreign Office was highly skeptical of the rumor, but later, when Sir Alfred Knox asked in the House of Commons whether the Government was aware of the report, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Richard Austen Butler replied: "Yes, sir, and my noble friend [Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax] has reason to believe that this report is not without foundation." If the Soviet Union was going to give Germany the wherewithal to buy raw materials abroad, possibly in fee simple for hands off in the East Baltic...
...United States Senate, as printed day by day in the Congressional Record, we should have to say that it would be such an answer as the super-verbose and dimly lighted might be expected to give. Is it possible that we Americans cannot do better than that? Nicholas Murray Butler in the Columbia Spectator...
Skylark has the sleek look of good drawing-room comedy-a luxurious stage set, a pile of monogrammed wisecracks, a cynical bachelor, a sophisticated butler, a poison-breathing bitch. But Playwright Raphaelson does nothing with them: they add up to a formula instead of a good time. His most original idea has been to have his characters spend most of their waking hours on the telephone...
...Nearest competitor: The New Poetry, edited by the late Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson (Macmillan), 23,704 copies printed. Queerest: The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, edited by the late William Butler Yeats (Oxford). Choicest: The Faber Book of Modern Verse, edited by Michael Roberts (Faber & Faber...
...been pro-Ally from the start. On March 11, "War Sunday" had sounded the call to arms in the nation's churches. Four weeks before war the Railroad Brotherhoods said their threatened strike would be called off in event of war. Nicholas Murray Butler's Carnegie Endowment for International Peace had for several months been whooping up war spirit. Creel's hand was seen, however, in the speedy passage of the Espionage Act of June 15, the Sedition...