Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been no such thing, read with deepest interest what Mr. Coolidge had to say. One of the first things they noticed was the sense of responsibility with which the oracle approached his task. Here was not the informal, drily amusing Calvin Coolidge of Amherst reunions, where he is content to sit on the ground and idly chat with friends, nor was it the taciturn, retiring inhabitant of the little Northampton law office and the shady new Northampton estate. The Beeches. In returning to his public. Citizen Coolidge brought with him most of the dignity and restraint he had exercised with...
Preliminary "leaks" from the investigators in Warsaw and Copenhagen last week may be thus summarized: Local officials were aghast at the idea that a workman & family should occupy four rooms, surprised at the notion that they should want a bath. Local workmen appeared to be content with two rooms per family, accustomed to dropping in at the municipal baths when dirty. In a terminology more European than American the conclusion seemed to be that an office worker or petit bourgeois is about the lowest class of wage earner who might (possibly) or should (perhaps) have a bathroom in his home...
...cancel should he resume office, fore British Cabinet memebers may not write for papers or magazines. When he first left office Mr. Lloyd George could sell a 2,000-word article every fortnight through his U. S. connection for $2.50 per word. Today he has to be content with about $1.25 per word once a month
Signor Benito Mussolini is content with even less, partly because Il Duce is the only head of a State able and up-to-date enough to realize that be his pen he can advertise his country abroad and mold public opinion in his favor. He alone both rules and writes...
...only after the Imperial Conference at London in 1926 had invented what is called "Dominion Status"* (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926, et seq.). Returning to Capetown after the Conference, the Prime Minister announced that Dominion Status includes the Right of Secession, and secure in this right South Africanders have been content not to use it. Squaring himself before the House, conscious that there will be another Imperial Conference within a few months at London, General Hertzog fairly roared at General Smuts...