Word: defunctive
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...Trade Union) which overlaps the so-called Northern Neutrals (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland). These groups pursue a ceaseless European activity for lowered customs barriers, mobilization of Europe's remaining moral forces against aggression, and until lately they were the energetic champions of the League of Nations, now admittedly defunct...
...Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. called in Paris upon new expatriate Polish President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, this act confirming diplomatic recognition, which was also granted by France, Great Britain, Turkey, Sweden, Argentina, Mexico, the Vatican. Turks in Paris proudly recalled that during previous partitions of Poland, when the country appeared defunct for generations at a time, it was customary at the Sultan's Court for the Turkish majordomo, after announcing the names of all guests who had arrived, to shout "and unfortunately the Polish Ambassador is unavoidably absent...
...eleven years he and his wife lived in Derry, N. H. in almost complete isolation. Four children were born and he wrote constantly, but except for a few poems printed in the (now defunct) Independent, a religious weekly, none of his poetry was published. He scraped a barer and barer living from his farm. But meanwhile he was writing his intensest poetry. This intensity was the natural consequence of living face to face, side by side with a living Muse...
...Marshal Petain's experience much happier once he was received. Taking a leaf from the book of Adolf Hitler, Dictator Franco began making more demands. He wanted France immediately to turn over to Spain 410 interned armed trawlers and merchant ships of the now defunct Spanish Republic. He demanded $13,000,000 worth of war material that had been shipped from Soviet Russia and was held up in transit in France. He asked for about 100 airplanes and motors, still in crates, that were also in France. Not less interesting to the Generalissimo was $39,000,000 in gold...
Actually left in the League are none but France and Britain (and some of their proteges), Russia and small fry nations: the Scandinavian countries, 13 minor European countries, ten Latin American countries, Liberia, Turkey, the unconquered tag-end of China, the defunct Republic of Spain, and the late Kingdom of Ethiopia (as represented by Haile Selassie). This League of leftovers represents only one of Europe's two clattering armed camps, and no altercation was ever settled by having only one side sit down and talk things over...