Word: come
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mabel Thorp Boardman had come back from Berlin, where her uncle was U. S. Minister. Unmarried, she was no longer a Victorian young lady but a Victorian spinster. The Red Cross job was just what she wanted. Imaginative, energetic, with a passion for detail, she got to work with a will. Fifteen years later she was national secretary, has kept the job ever since...
...debate that counts, in either house of Congress, comes when a bill is being amended. Then legislators are working spontaneously with their wits and tongues to shape and perfect legislation. Full-dress debate, such as last week's in the Senate, is almost as empty of reality as the cook books and tracts that filibusterers read into the Congressional Record. Even as a powerhouse of arguments, this Congressional debate was of little or no importance. The Washington public stayed away from a mere set of written speeches; waited for the sparring to come when such phrase-fisted boxers...
...achieve this great end, the leading nations of this continent will one day have to come together in order to draw up, accept and guarantee a statute on a comprehensive basis which will insure for them all a sense of security, of calm-in short, of peace...
...Perhaps the day will come." Now that Poland was subjugated and Germany was on such excellent terms with all her neighbors-including Britain and France, as far as he was concerned-Mr. Hitler wondered what all the shooting was about on the Western Front. At this point Adolf Hitler figuratively vanished into the drapery behind him and a composite character made up of Aristide Briand, Ramsay MacDonald, Gustav Stresemann, Neville Chamberlain, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Cordell Hull suddenly took his place. The change of word and wind was nothing short of fantastic. Pacific, idealistic, hopeful, tenderly humane and sweetly vague...
...sympathy" with the British, he indicated, and his "respect" for the "great achievements of the French nation" that caused Herr Hitler throbbingly to ask: "Why should this war in the west be fought? . . . "Continuation of the present state of affairs in the West is unthinkable. Perhaps the day will come when France will begin to bombard Saarbrücken. German artillery will in turn lay Mulhouse in ruins. France will retaliate by bombarding Karlsruhe and Germany in her turn will shell Strasbourg. Then the French artillery will fire at Freiburg and the German at Colmar or Schlettstadt. Long-range guns...