Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong evidence of the same distaste for political things in France, and I would not be surprised to see the French unite in supporting a man who could spare them the turbulence of politics," said Mr. Pound. "I doubt if this could occur in America or England, because these two countries do not take their politics as seriously as the others...
...steadily concerned about transoceanic matters; now with local difficulties looming large it is more than ever shrugging its shoulders at Europe and at Asia. But even were this otherwise, the issues are so often technical, so often conducted with the mysterious formalities of diplomatic usage, that one might well doubt the competence of a democracy to handle them with awareness of general implications instead of with sporadic excitability. Indeed observers have asserted that in the foreign field democracy finds consistent policy impossible, and either comes to grief directly in an international imbroglio or falls into such disropute at home that...
...really doubt if it is wise for a man to go into politics unless he is wealthy," Mr. Washburn concluded to his audience of a hundred. "Politics is more demoralizing that drink...
There was no doubt about it: the U. S. was seeing within its own frontiers what has come to be a commonplace of Europe?vast sums of timid money skittering out of a country at the first rumor of devaluation or rebellion. By last week the flight of capital from sunny California and the EPIC plans of its Democratic nominee for Governor had become a major market factor...
...motherly, soft-spoken Mrs. Wiggs, Pauline Lord makes a promising debut into talking pictures, and she will no doubt fit well into the Marie Dressler type of role. The Wiggs children speak with similar accents, do not look at the camera, and are quite charming. True love is wholesomely portrayed by the winsome Evelyn Venable and Kent Taylor, who appeared together in David Harum. The affection of the pompous Mr. Stubbins (W. C. Fields) for Miss Bazy (Zazu Pitts) may be placed on a somewhat lower level, for Mr. Stubbins has to be lured toward the altar by the combined...