Word: come
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamberlain has come to regard his gamp as a necessary part of his journeys abroad and last week, before pursuing "appeasement" to Rome, he told friends the story of an old lady with an umbrella, who, pursued by a lion, suddenly turned, unfurled her weapon and scared the beast away. Concluded Mr. Chamberlain: "And I am taking my umbrella to Rome...
Italians were obviously dissatisfied with the results of the fruitless conference. The official spokesman had nothing to say the day after the talks ended. Observers scoffed at Mr. Chamberlain for coming to Rome to learn no more than what the British Ambassador to Rome could have, and probably had, told him. Mr. Chamberlain remained optimistic to the last and when he said farewell to II Duce, he was wearing his best public smile. "Not good-by," he remarked to his host, "but au revoir." "Au revoir," smiled II Duce, "and soon." Back in London, Mr. Chamberlain received a reception...
...Anglicized and broadcast from Normandy and Luxemburg to British listeners. Anglicizing largely involved changing cops to bobbies, dollars to pounds, Manhattan Merry-Go-Round to London Merry-Go-Round, Lorenzo Jones to Marmaduke Brown, and most writers felt that some fame or profit from this rebroadcasting should come to them. But every script that went abroad was prudently marked, like those used in the U. S.: "Authors-Frank and Anne Hummert," and B-S-H picked up all the chips...
...Brooklyn is the oldest museum of its kind in the world. Unlike most museums, it invites its patrons to handle its exhibits. It is stocked not with fossils or old masters but with jigsaw puzzles, stuffed birds, insects, rocks. Each day it swarms with 1,000 visitors, who come not to look but to work...
...guess he would have me come over wearing my clerical collar-and get murdered. . . . Any word or action of the Spanish Loyalist Government friendly to the Church must be taken as a sign of fraud, or of self-deception, or of the repudiation of its principles...