Word: disturber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock in the morning, just after he has had his half-hour at riding or fencing. He often brings with him something to read while I am attending him. He cannot endure a moment of idleness. I say very little to him for I do not wish to disturb his thoughts. In fact, it is a very serious half-hour I spend with His Excellency...
...disturb the dust; it gets in peoples eyes and often makes them sneeze. (Name withheld by request...
...Five-Year Plan become realities Russia must trade with the outside world. The Anglo-Russian embargoes, results of the British engineers' propaganda trial two months ago, have been a serious blow to the Soviet. It is a safe bet that M. Litvinov will do nothing to disturb the Conference until he has finished his private bargaining with the British Foreign Office in an effort to have both embargoes lifted without loss of face by either country...
...week New York tipped the national balance against "common law" marriages 2540-23 by legislating them out of existence. Governor Lehman signed a bill which decreed that hereafter no marriage within the State shall be valid unless solemnized by a clergyman or a civil officer. The measure does not disturb those already living in informal wedlock. Its advocates predicted that it would strip "golddiggers" of their strongest weapon in claiming a widow's right in a dead man's estate. Its opponents feared it would work hardship upon ignorant, simple women who thought they were getting married...
Acting Comptroller of the Currency Await admitted that his office had known about Harriman irregularities as long ago as July 23 but that prosecutions were delayed in the hope of salvaging deposits. The Treasury hesitated ("in the public interest") to act lest it disturb the already critical banking situation...