Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...block; whereupon he was struck with a wet cord that had been chilled, very conveniently, to more or less the temperature of a steel blade. Billy's simpleminded brain reacted most realistically to this mock execution, and it telegraphed the rest of his body that he was "done...
Ever since his "quarantine the aggressor nations" speech at Chicago in 1937, Franklin Roosevelt has openly led the party which believes not only that the totalitarian dictators deny the democratic U. S. way of life but that they threaten it, that something must be done to curb them. Doing something about things that look wrong to him is a prime characteristic of Franklin Roosevelt and, fortified by the Warm Springs spirit, the tougher the going gets the better he likes...
...intelligent schoolboy knows that all this kind of thing makes all the people poorer than they need be and is sheer economic nonsense. One thing to do is to view with alarm, and this was ably done in Chicago last week by two potent Governors-Cochran of Nebraska and Stark of Missouri (see p. 21)-who discerned and decried a menace to "free America...
...feeling wife and daughter-in-law, into a self-confident swan of a woman with the nation for her pond, she has learned to sail through life with serenity. In the rarefied top stratum of official existence, where one can see anything, learn anything, go anywhere, get almost anything done, she wastes no chance to compensate for long years of being (by her own account) a cloistered nobody...
...above is a rough condensation of what one Louis Armstrong now at the Southland with his band has done for jazz. "Satchmo'" has given jazz a colorful lexicography all its own, and even more important has exercised tremendous influence on the music itself...