Word: crows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Explanation: last week the Imperial Government needed to distract public opinion from the fact that the French Embassy was forcing it to eat crow. Irate France demanded and received apologies for baseless charges recently circulated that handsome French Assistant Naval Attache Tessier Ducros has proved irresistible to 30 ladies, some of the highest Japanese nobility and gentry, others waitresses, professors' wives. In return for his gallant favors they were supposed to have slipped him slews of State secrets...
Twice has Comrade Zinoviev organized opposition to Comrade Stalin's policies within the Party (TIME. Oct. 24, 1932). Twice has Stalin permitted him abjectly to repent and eat crow. Last week he was turning obscurely as a minor cog in the Party bureaucracy when abruptly the Dictator chose to flaunt again and pillory the name ZINOVIEV...
...Clarendon Palace his "Constitutions of Clarendon" which imposed reasonable restraints, but he fell out with Thomas a Becket, the up-&-coming young churchman whom he had promoted to be Archbishop of Canterbury. The resulting imbroglio with the Church was too hot for King Henry to handle; he ate crow and purchased absolution from the Pope...
...last week James Aloysius Farley could dress up in a dinner coat, sit on a desk in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, grin like an Easter egg, swing his feet and very properly crow: "The New Deal has been magnificently sustained. . . . Our majority in the U. S. Senate and our ma jority in the House. . . . The greatest plurality ever given to Democratic candidates...
...rate as this news hound journeyed past Gales Ferry where the Yale football team had taken over the crow headquarters for their own use, noted more activity than was usual in New England on the Lord's Day. Perhaps he heard the bark of signals; perhaps the thud of boot on taut pigskin; perhaps the creaking of the tackling dummy. In any event his curiosity was aroused and he started to investigate...