Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Investigation revealed that the sacks contained 187 volumes of the congressional record, brand new, bound in calf, beautifully embossed in gold, and complete since 1915. It seems that the student's father, prominent in middle western political affairs, had let drop to the state senator that his son was concentrating in Government at Harvard, and would perhaps be interested in legislative affairs. The senator, quite evidently a man with a sense of humor, took him at his word...
...state, with democracy on trial for its life in France and Spain, with its future clouded even in Britain, Stanley Baldwin stepped to a microphone in London and made the sort of speech that five years ago would not have been news but is today. "Our freedom did not drop down like manna from heaven," cried the Conservative leader. "It has been fought for from the beginning, and the blood of men has been shed to obtain it. ... This freedom is mirrored for us and crystallized in Parliament. . . . "Democracy is the most difficult form of government because it requires...
Really, it is all very puzzling-you men must be in your daily life honest, intelligent and educated or you would not be where you are, but having in your hands an instrument of publicity reaching thousands of readers you drop your principles and resort to sneaking actions which you would scorn in your private life...
...they will all be lucky to get out alive. The oldest woman present commits suicide when the radio denounces her as a social parvenu. The banker kills himself by accident while trying to poison the rest of the company. Curiosity and alarm set others to bickering and snarling. They drop off one by one, leaving only the journalist (Donald Cook) and his inamorata (Genevieve Tobin...
Shortly after 10 o'clock, when Dillon called the assembly to order, it became apparent that Wilkins was getting angry, and that he was prepared to drop his passivity of the first two days. Dillon stated that the day's work would begin with allegation 17. Wilkins and Gill insisted that number 16, charging the Superintendent with laxity toward drunken prisoners, be continued from the previous day. When Dillon acquiesced, the following interchange took place...