Word: crisped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the years 1914 to 1922, some 900 boys attended The Hill School at Pottstown, Pa. There, as their headmaster, they knew an erect, square-shouldered young man with crisp, rufous hair, square chin, and wide blue eyes that combined the attentiveness of a scholar, the vigilance of a martinet, the red-veined nervousness of a stallion. Boys, now men. who remember those eyes and the wide mouth that always trembled when it was trying to be most deliberate, know that Dwight Raymond Meigs was a combination of strong forces. "The King." the boys called him, some in fear, some...
Some hundred thousand dollars had been contributed to the new party's "war chest" by more than half a million persons. Suddenly they got their money back, every pence and pound of it, each contributor receiving a crisp cheque and a "personal" (mimeographed) letter from the leader of the party, the man who was to have been Prime Minister, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook...
...gone, but White Cargo is still an effective piece of theatre, ironic in spite of its loquacity. Best shot: the Englishman whose undoing has been traced being carried out to the ship to be sent home while his successor, doomed for a similar fate, enters, ambitious and punctilious, in crisp white ducks...
...crisp autumn day in 1896, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Professor of Jurisprudence at the College of New Jersey, eloquently addressed a crowd of alumni and visitors who had gathered to witness the formal changing of the institution's title to Princeton University. Professor Wilson solemnly charged his audience to think of the University's destiny as "Princeton in the Nation's Service." Said...
Before assembled naval delegates, crisp businesslike Prime Minister André Tardieu demanded for France a total of 725.000 tons by 1937 in order to give her absolute parity with Italy in the Mediterranean, and to offset the 144,000 tons allowed Germany under the Treaty of Versailles. This program, if built, would give France not only the largest submarine fleet in the world, but a total naval ratio of 3-3-2 with Britain and the U. S. Observers were aghast, saw the possibility that instead of reducing armaments, Britain and the U. S. might have to indulge...