Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both French and German delegations took the same train to London. Public smiles were even broader. Swarthy Laval waved a newspaper over his head and laughed out loud to the delight of photographers. German Foreign Minister Curtius had something real to smile about. Word had just reached him that he was for the first time a grandfather. But gloomy was Scot MacDonald who opened the conference that night. Said he: "If we cannot find a solution to the present crisis it will be difficult to stay the flood before it has overwhelmed the whole of Central Europe, with consequences-social...
...course of his financial manipulations Clark came into possession of the indigent Butte Miner. To his surprise and delight he found it a handy weapon for belaboring Marcus Daly. Daly endured the attacks until 1889, then vowed to put his enemy in his place...
...national headquarters leaned over backwards last week not to jubilate out loud. They were well aware that if they started partisan hurrahing now, they would drive Democratic votes in Congress away when they would be needed next December. Outside of Washington Republicans were not thus careful to stifle their delight. In New Jersey last week David Baird Jr., onetime Senator and now Republican nominee for Governor, made a speech which accurately foreshadowed the Republican campaign note on the mora torium. Said...
...service, Brodie treated like a hated slave. Even when she collapsed from hopelessly advanced cancer he sneered at her for a softy. His old hag of a mother, who lived only for food, he pleasured in plaguing; once got her drunk for a joke, yelled with delight when she broke her only means of communication with life, her false teeth. Brodie forbade his eldest daughter Mary to keep company with a decent young Irishman; when the first throes of child-birth showed she had disobeyed him he literally kicked her out of the house into a howling night of storm...
...relieve the market, up prices by drastic action upon the Board's 200,000,000 bu. of wheat. Senator Watson as spokesman for the Senators from wheat-growing States did not seriously propose that the Board destroy its vast holdings by fire, much as such a spectacle might delight U. S. husbandmen, but he did strongly urge the Board to cease selling wheat for at least a twelvemonth...