Word: come
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sending the emaciated Rabbit to the House. The bill, once totaling $3,860,000,000, now stood at $1,615,000,000. California's bulky oldtimer, Hiram Johnson, took the floor to characterize the New Deal's spending philosophy as that of the cow-camp cook: "Come and get it! Come...
...Berlin, London is ringed with guns, balloons, and searchlights. The special province of the British is the multiplication of instructive pamphlets with titles as long as Punch captions ( Your gas mask, how to keep it and how to use it; some things you should know if war should come). They are crammed with common sense and pat slogans like: "Take Care of Your Gas Mask and Your Gas Mask Will Take Care of You." When enemy planes are overhead, "the motto for safety will be Keep it Dark." Britons are warned to memorize the types of raid signals...
...stern tone only when discussing outright Fascists and Conservatives and the Tory members of the Anglo-German Fellowship. British readers, who knew the British ruling class was rich, small and solid but scarcely expected to find that most of the world of Parliament is kin, doubted that much would come of the revelations in Tory...
Gallant Fox is the greatest horse yet to come out of the Woodward stud, but by no means the only great one. Woodward-bred horses (up to July 1, 1939) have won 1,612 races, have earned more than $3,500,000 on U. S. and English tracks. Not all of this money went into Mr. Woodward's pocket. Horses sold as yearlings won $1,250,000 of this amount. In the past decade, three Woodward-owned horses have won the Kentucky Derby: Gallant Fox (1930), Omaha (1935), and Johnstown (1939). Five have captured the Belmont Stakes, considered by breeders...
...tired of wandering, would rather live in Beaumont than any place on earth. He got his job back and has been there ever since-in spite of occasional carouses (for which he would always apologize in 2,000-word letters), in spite of threats to inefficient assistants to "come around the desk and get you," in spite of a sit-down strike he once conducted to get a good assistant a raise. Shannon took the assistant out to a park bench and sat there with him until the raise went through...