Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tourists who go to Vienna nowadays may pay a few schillings and wander fairly freely through the gloomy Imperial Palace. They may gaze to their heart's content at the iron cot on which old Franz Josef slept, at the basin in which ample Maria Theresa bathed. But one wing in the Hofburg is barred to them. Tourists are not allowed to prowl through the rooms which belonged to Archduke Rudolf, Franz Josef's son who died mysteriously at his hunting lodge at Mayerling. Rudolf's rooms have not been preserved as a museum for tragic memories...
White v. Ingalls. To critics who say he is too young to be governor of Ohio, David Sinton Ingalls, 33-year-old Republican nominee against George White, Democratic incumbent, quotes William Pitt's reply to a similar charge in the British Parliament: "I content myself with hoping that I may be one of those whose follies cease in their youth and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of age and experience...
Chicago's 70-year-old coach, Amos Alonzo Stagg, disgruntled by a university ruling that he must retire at the end of the season, said he was "frankly, not content to do it." He predicted for himself 15 more years of active coaching, then watched Chicago score three times in the last period to beat Knox...
...filled with a strong nationalism, not the nationalism of an old and settled empire, but nationalism as a Pole or an Irishman understands it--a love of independence that sweeps away all other considerations. They have a culture and a civilization of their own and they will never be content under the dominion of the United States...
...their own homes without a direct cash loan. Jay N. ("Ding") Darling discussed the August farm strike in his own Iowa. Incongruously sprinkled in were bits of Ogden Nash's flighty doggerel. Readers could only conclude that, if Editor-in-Chief Smith was really responsible for the content and make-up of his New Outlook, he was still a better politician than an editor...