Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eamon de Valera, Prime Minister of Eire, accepted an invitation to be an overnight guest, May 7, at the White House. Object of trip: world's fairs...
...attempt to turn Mr. Chamberlain's visit into another Munich deal at France's expense. Although Mr. Chamberlain announced as his New Year's resolution that "Great Britain will not make any further concessions to force," many a Frenchman chortled over a disquieting burlesque. Shrewd Henri de Kerillis, independent Rightist Deputy and one of the most influential Rightists opposed to Premier Daladier, wrote for his newspaper, L'Epoque, an imaginary telephone conversation between the Axial partners...
When Dr. Riddle talks most earnestly about glands, he is apt for emphasis to indicate their location on his own person, and his eyes begin to sparkle. He smokes a great many de-nicotinized cigarets down to ragged little stubs. In his enthusiasm he lunches in his laboratory on sandwiches, coffee and condensed cream, perhaps with the bloody carcass of a rat in the sink at his elbow and surrounded by jars of pickled pigeon specimens. He used to play golf but has given it up, used to be a bachelor, but gave that up also almost...
...Danse dans un Pavilion de Jardin (see cut), painted about 1718, is one of the famous Fêtes Galantes of Watteau's maturity. Watteau ran away from home, did hack work, was rescued by rich friends, resented their kindnesses, died young (37) of tuberculosis. But he lived in Paris in a graceful period and reflected its graces...
...that Americans have finally realized that their nation is a part of the world; that Britain, long the strategically dominating factor in Europe and the first line of defense for America's isolationism, no longer holds that position; that Berlin is closer--several days closer, by steamship--to Rio de Janiero than is New York; and that, as the President yesterday said, "democracies of the world which observe the sanctity of treaties . . . cannot safely be indifferent to international lawlessness anywhere. Acts of aggression . . . automatically undermine...