Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...artist, has always been considered as the pillar of fire in the synagog. He has the ability with the rays of his voice to create light and joy when Israel is left in darkness. . . . When the whole world was engaged in speculation to gain more wealth, the cantor was content with the necessaries of life. When the whole country made a concerted drive to organize labor and make possible a living wage, the cantor still was reluctant to move. The results are despair, despondency and destruction...
...convention in Manhattan and announced that candy sales for 1934's first four months were 28% better than in 1933. U. S. citizens were again eating an average of a pound of candy apiece every month. Candyman William F. Heide gloated, "The time when people were content to get beefsteak and potatoes has definitely come...
...Brussels meanwhile was not staying up either for the Cabinet crisis or for the royal birth. Belgians were content to be waked up at 6 a. m. next morning by a 101-gun salute which gave them a good idea of what Brussels was going to be told officially some hours later by her great War-Hero Burgomaster...
Enthroned on the epistle side of the altar, the swart Apostolic Delegate looked cool and content. In mitre, gloves, amice, alb and stiff brocaded chasuble, 54-year-old Archbishop Curley perspired heavily but went through the ritual as valiantly as if he had not passed a winter of poor health and fasted 13 hours before the mass. Not so stalwart was many another Catholic in the Stadium. By the time the mass was under way people in the stands were dropping by dozens. By the time Rev. Dr. Peter Keenan Guilday, Catholic University historian, was in the midst...
...daughter; when he learns his clerk has already taken a wife, he discharges Pinneberg. Lammchen and her husband go to Berlin to live with Pinneberg's hard-boiled mother whose friend Jachman helps the young man get a job selling clothes in a department store. Lammchen is content to cook for Frau Pinneberg's noisy visitors but young Pinneberg feels ashamed when he finds that he is being pensioned by his mother's pimp. Presently the two young Pinnebergs are established in an attic over a stable. By the time Pinneberg has lost...