Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question of Austria, Mussolini repeated what he had told Chancellor Schuschnigg in Venice, that Italy would not fight Germany to preserve Austrian independence. Baron von Neurath in return gave his assurance that Germany would make no move to annex Austria by arms, would be content "with economic penetration of the Danube basin...
First step was to finish Luke's education. Architecture was to be Luke's field. But somewhere along the way his quiet talent turned to teaching; by the time he had his Ph.D., architecture and the stage were alike long forgotten. Margery was content to have only the career of being Luke's wife, but she was bound that Luke was to be an acknowledged great man. While he kept plodding through the academic maze, Margery did her best to keep up with him, was beguiled into one blind alley after another. By the time Luke...
...jolly old Italian and you can call from Keat's window and he will bring you up a rose; and if he likes you he may give you one for "the Signore" free. Without superstition I think nowhere in Rome have I seen flowers so fresh and so seemingly content: as if perhaps they are conscious that here in the shade of one who loved beauty so well they are happy to pass their watery existence or be sold, as Fate ordains...
...Legs" is a breezy, carefree musical about a cat and a ship and asserted people. It makes no pretensions of edifying or satirizing; it is content to amuse. One sits back, gently smiling, frequently laughing, aroused by nothing more than an occasional dirty joke...
Halted after 11 innings of seesaw baseball because of darkness, the Crimson nine was forced to be content with a 9 to 9 tie in its games Saturday with St. John's at Soldiers Field...