Word: come
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Come what may, Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's Eire Government does not expect to muster Irish troops to help Britain in a war. Moreover, considering Northern Ireland a part of Eire, the de Valera Government does not want the six counties mixed up with a war. Last week the British Government announced the beginnings of conscription (see p. 20). Promptly Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, announced that Northern Ireland was a "most loyal part of the United Kingdom and would deeply resent any suggestion that she should not be included in the military training bill...
Tests of their thinking power were yet to come. Their first thoughts on the Big Town were varied. Sighed Molly Milano at week's end: "It's just a movie come true." Said William Propst, 19: "After all, I like the quiet of my home town...
Visiting a garden dedicated to the memory of George V, Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, genteelly prodded some ivy with her umbrella, vowed: "If I had a pair of secateurs [pruning shears], I would cut it off now. ... If I come next year and it's still there, I will clip it off." "Her Majesty," translated a lady-in-waiting, "doesn't like...
...tired and shaken Russians where they were by pointing to the spot on their map: Miscou Island, off the coast of New Brunswick, 700 miles short of New York, 3,900 miles from Moscow. Thus, last week after 23 hours and 36 minutes in the air, ended what had come close to being the longest east-west transatlantic flight. At Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., where a crowd of 5,000 waited in a drizzling rain, a Russian Embassy attachè announced the news when it came in by telegraph. Twelve little girls with garlands of flowers for the transatlantic...
...week the lower jaws of billions of fat worms were steadily spinning filaments of silk. This valuable regurgitation has gone on in Japan for centuries but rarely has it been such a source of interest to the outside world. For in the next few weeks enough cocoons will have come to market for the silk industry to estimate the size of the 1939-40 crop. And upon that size depends: 1) the immediate outcome of the, tightest U. S. silk squeeze in history, 2) the fate of certain speculators, 3) whether the cost of silk stockings...