Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office with a desk on which there is a buzzer, and if he can press that buzzer and have somebody come dashing in response-then he's an executive," i.e., exempt from the law's overtime regulations...
This lack of basic harmony among the conferees was nowhere better reflected than in the Conference's opening. Most of the delegates had come with resolutions to propose, and most of the others were willing to accept them-with reservations. They were willing to endorse hemispheric defensive military cooperation from the U. S.-but no military alliances. They were willing to damn totalitarianism in general-but no specific totalitarian state in particular. ("The position of America is one of collaboration, not rebuke," said General Benavides.) They were willing to accept the principle of Argentina's strictures against disruptive...
...general, no foreign diplomat on a big mission to Paris ever had a thinner time than Herr Ribbentrop. There was no public acclamation for him. The police scarcely let his top hat come into public view. So numerous were the guards around the Arc de Triomphe when Herr Ribbentrop, wearing the German Iron Cross, laid a swastika-decorated wreath at the tomb of France's Unknown Soldier, that few saw this unprecedented ceremony...
...Austrian submarine, came home from the War to his family castle near Salzburg. There he and his buxom wife, Frau Maria Augusta, settled down to the serious business of raising their family. The family flourished. By 1921 it included seven small von Trapps; and there were more to come...
Last September, believing that the time had come to find out how fully the seven counties realized the measure of their improvement, Dr. Pritchard sent to 80,000 voters a report and a ballot. The ballot asked voters whether they were willing to tax themselves 25? per capita to continue their health departments, relieving the Foundation of part of its burden. Last week the votes were counted...