Word: curls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamber of Deputies passed the Foreign Office budget for 1933 last week. U. S. correspondents noted the fact, then prospected for news nuggets through page after page of official specifications. A 175-page supplement caused their hair to curl. Leonine Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour had demanded and got an additional appropriation of 33,000,000 francs ($1,320,000) for French propaganda abroad. In the introduction to his demand he explained that nine European Governments annually spend the following sums (in francs) in foreign propaganda: Germany: 256,000,000 (before Hitler) Italy: 119,000,000 France...
...remained for Senator Glass to curl his lip scornfully, grip his desk with both hands and pronounce a final damnation of the Soft Money arguments. Drawled he out of the right corner of his mouth...
...with a lute suspended from a silver cord around his neck, comes in with a repertory of ballads and lyrics, and sings for them--Campion's latest stanzas, perhaps, or some slight verses of his own. The crude excitements of the times vanish in the music, and the dogs curl up their paws by the flames...
...proved once more her essential femininity. She has changed her dress again. She has apparently changed her mind about just what sort of a girl she wants to be this season. No longer the demure young lady (with her moments of audacity to be sure), she will cut and curl her hair, wear a tailored suit, and thumb the pages of The World Tomorrow. And she has betrayed her womanhood most completely by a delightful bit of guile--by dating it November instead of September she has brought out her first issue on time...
...across the low platform of the green 15 feet beyond the hole. Von Elm's ball went a foot further. He leaned over to putt and then looked up; the whirling of a camera had disturbed him. There was a reverent silence as he tapped his ball, watched it curl slowly toward the cup, and stop, unmiraculously this time, a yard beyond it. Burke, with three putts for a win, signalled to the cameras to take his picture. Obliging, he putted three times, won the U. S. Open after 144 holes, 589 strokes...