Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Jan. 14). Last week in the Province of New Brunswick came a preliminary test. If the Conservative Premier's New Deal was catching on with Canada's masses, Mr. Bennett could hope that when New Brunswick elected its provincial legislature Conservative New Brunswick Premier Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley would win enough votes to carry on as Hooverish Mr. Bennett hopes to carry...
...fearful intrigue steadily tightening around Mose, readers may be slow in recognizing that Author Rylee has unobtrusively built him up as a strong character, a human being extraordinary in his selflessness, his patience and simple eloquence, his deep inner contentment with the seasonal simplicities of farm life. "De Lord done been trampled on befo. . ." he sermonizes. "An hit ain't never ruffle de Lord none. Dey done nail de Lord up an poke a knife in he side and done laid de crown o' thawns on he haid, an hit didn't no more'n make...
...eastward crossing. As Normandie neared Havre every house seemed to be flying a bit of the Atlantic's speed blue ribbon which the world's largest ship had won for France. Amid tears, cheers and sirens, the world's fourth largest seaplane, also French, Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, thundered out from Havre to circle over Normandie, its passengers peering down from twelve cabins, each with private bath, then strolling in for cocktails at the flying French monster...
Alibi Ike, considerably adapted, is the Ring Lardner pitcher who could never give a straight question a straight answer. Particularly oblique is Ike when questions bear on his sentiments for Dolly (Olivia de Havilland). It is not the wiles of Crooked Gamblers but depression over a spat with Dolly, who has heard him alibying their engagement, that makes him lose the ball game. Nobody believes him until he steals an ambulance in which his enemies have kidnapped him and gets to the ball park in time to win another...
John Burke Wilkinson of West Orange, New Jersey, has been awarded the Lionel de Jersey Studentship for study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England. The studentship, established by the Associated Harvard Clubs, gives a year of study at Cambridge and the scholar lives in the room which John Harvard is supposed to have occupied...