Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fact is, polls of public opinion on Neutrality have strongly supported the well-known Hull-Roosevelt desire to support the Democracies (with arms but not men) against the Dictators. The Bloom bill, passed by the House but now allowed to die in the Senate, was not wholly unacceptable to Messrs...
"A friend of mine, who was there lately, tells me that he asked one Swiss after another what was the name of the President, and that they all sought refuge in polite astonishment at such ignorance, and, when pressed for the name, could only screw up their eyes, snap their...
Fourth Try. Congress is now fretting over a fourth Neutrality bill, a fourth attempt to make sense of the U. S. desire for peace. The bill sponsored in the House of Representatives by the Administration called for repeal of the mandatory embargo on arms exports. But isolationist Congressmen amended it...
During her ensuing reign as amateur queen of the ice, Sonja Henie won the world's championship ten times running, an unequaled record. She also won the seven European championships she entered, and she won the last three Olympic Games of her amateur era. She became a national idol...
The story of a neglected wife, Skylark tells how Lydia Kenyon, wife of a $50,000-a-year Manhattan adman, discovered her husband was sleeping with his business, broke up that romance by curing him of the desire to be a big shot. The novel's dialogue ("She'...