Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tail to sec the object of getting particularly excited at this time about foreign political debts. Because the dollar is tremendously dear in terms of commodities is no reason, except to hardheaded foreign financiers and governments, and U. S. owners of foreign second mortgages which they hope to make first mortgages, at this time to cancel or readjust these debts to the tune of Depression prices and bankrupt business. So far as prices are concerned, it would seem that in a 62-year swing, foreign countries would have an opportunity to pay their debts at an average price dollar...
...leave Paris"). ¶ For his 58th birthday, President Hoover received: 1) a cake baked aboard the new S. S. Manhattan; 2) a cake with 58 candles baked at the White House; 3) a croaker; 4) a Boy Scout scroll; 5) a song by youngsters from Pittsburgh ("Happy Birthday, dear President, happy birthday to you!"); 6) a greeting card with some 40,000 signatures, including those of Democratic Governors Roosevelt, Ritchie...
...victory over Germany set the stage for a Davis Cup challenge round in which the U. S. had a better chance than it has had since 1927, when Cochet. La Coste and Borotra beat William Tatem Tilden II, his dear friend Francis Hunter and William Johnston. Even supposing that Cochet was as good as ever, of which no body who saw him lose in Wimbledon's second round could be quite sure, the rest of the team was almost certainly weaker this year. Captain and Reserve Singles Player René Lacoste, who has been trying to make a comeback this year...
...without her characteristic nervous titter is beautiful and reasonably capable as Nina Leeds, particularly toward the end of the picture as the woman of 40. Clark Gable, perceptibly fatter, is Ned Darrell, the lover. Alexander Kirkland is Sam Evans, the husband. Ralph Morgan has kept his stage part of "dear old Charlie" Marsden, the epicene friend. May Robson as Sam's mother booms compellingly. The modernistic set of Nina's Park Avenue home is excellent. Noteworthy are frequent transparency shots which require a previously photographed background to be fitted to the foreground by the use mainly...
...Just want to tell you of an incident that happened while my husband and I were seated at the radio. . . . When it was announced that Mr. Roosevelt was nominated . . . our dear little brown dog Brownie . . . picked up a small rug and began to shake it and run all around the room with it in his mouth, as though he was waving his banner for the next President...