Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some time previous to the letter from Mr. Harding, although we are allowed no Calif, papers, all the out of State papers carried stories about how Mr. Harding was going to or had come over to see us and ask for the cornea. In fact there was so much publicity before any of us heard directly about it, that many condemned men thought it was merely a publicity stunt and therefore distrustful of the whole thing. There were also newspaper stories to the effect the request was made to us through the prison chaplain, but the truth is the only...
Historians may well look back upon last week as a turning point in U. S. foreign policy. Europe's jitters had communicated themselves to Washington so forcefully that President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull agreed the moment had come for another warning to Herr Hitler. Accordingly, Mr. Hull took to the air with a speech, short-waved to Europe, in which he elaborated his thesis of international "order under law." His sharpest point: "In a smaller and smaller world it will soon no longer be possible for some nations to choose and follow the way of force...
...loving old Author Logan Pearsall Smith (Trivia, More Trivia, All Trivia, Re-perusals and Re-collections). So did the New York Times in its early editions. Both newspapers later announced that Author Smith was not dead at all. Explanation: from publishers Little, Brown & Co. in Boston had come false reports of the death of Mr. Smith, recovering from pneumonia in Reykjavik, Iceland...
...That after a blowout, as after a skid, it is dangerous to put on the brakes until the car has slowed down and come under control...
...Library Giant (TIME, May 23). The original edition, cautiously figured to last six months, was 10,000 copies. With few critics paying it attention, it sold out in eleven days. A second edition of 20,000 copies has now dwindled to its last few thousand copies, and Freud has come back as the fastest-selling reprint throughout...