Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politics, to the ingrained chauvinism which has made France the popular ogre of the pacifists. His truest measure is found not in the compromises to which internal policies reduced him, but in his work at Locarno and Geneva, and in the generous eloquence which now and again overcame the deep hostility of the Chamber...
...handsome, grey-haired American who is staying at the Savoy Hotel, London, with his smart wife and charming daughter?well, his foundations may easily be knee-deep in the mire of the underworld. What is more, he may be only vaguely aware that this really matters. . . . King Crime is enthroned, and his influence extends over the whole vast country, but checking very abruptly at the Canadian border and not flowing over even into Mexico. ... A criminal army of 1,000,000 persons is operating in the United States and 25,000 gangsters alone have died by gunfire since Prohibition came...
French strategists say that these forts can maintain a cross-fire amid which no army could advance or so much as a rat live. Sunk deep in Mother Earth, the forts are supposed to be able to withstand indefinitely the most powerful bombardment, the heaviest bombing...
...hanged. There are borrowing days of suspense while the two look "for evidence to clear them. There are prison walls in Hollywood's best decor. Shadows of the gallows darken the screen, as the lovers say their rather affecting farewells and no negro stone-crusher bursts out into "Deep River," as this reviewer feared...
This same phrase came leaping back, clear as a Tiffany diamond, to the old fellow when he dropped into a Holworthy room the other day. There on the mantel deep in the white panelling were the hieroglyphics of a multitude. There was a G. M. '00, and O. G. '91. There were full names and first names, surnames and nicknames all carefully wrought and delicately traced. Only one was left unfinished, as if perchance the carver had been called away to Boston, and upon his return had forgotten his work so carefully begun. There is lay a precious fragment like...