Word: dwelt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, when the leaders of Tammany assembled to choose a candidate to regain the city hall for them, they were a very worried group of men. Something had happened to turn topsy-turvy the best of all political worlds in which they had so long dwelt. For three years they had had no patronage either from the city or from the New Deal. Their leader, James J. Dooling, who succeeded the deposed Boss Curry, was ill as he had been for months. Worse, he had never succeeded in becoming a real boss by bringing all factions of Tammany under...
Sermon. Franklin Roosevelt at press conference before the fiscal year-end delivered a little sermon. He pointed out that this seventh annual deficit would bring the public debt to the all-time high of $36,400,000,000. He preached, however, no hellfire to inspire reformation, but dwelt on mitigating circumstances. One cause of the rising public debt was the sterilization of gold. The Federal Government has borrowed to buy no less than $1,050,000,000 in gold coming from abroad in order to prevent its exercising an inflationary effect on U. S. trade. Since the Government has this...
...points out in books and on the radio the similarity between I'm Always Chasing Rainbows and Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu, who can detect in Yes, We Have No Bananas elements of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean, I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls and Seeing Nellie Home...
President Frey of the Metal Trades Department dwelt particularly on C. I. O. as a bedfellow of communism. So doing he provoked Charles P. Howard, who is secretary of C. I. O. but was present in Cincinnati because his union, the Typographers, still belongs to A. F. of L. Said Mr. Howard bitterly...
...long speech. Mr. Baldwin dwelt upon the evils arising from too little contact between "distinguished Britons," presumably including the King and himself and "distinguished Americans." In his peroration, which seemed to promise eventual cracking of British obstruction to such contact, the Prime Minister cried: "Uninformed criticism on both sides is useless and might, in fact, do each country a great deal of harm!" The U. S. Ambassador is a Kentucky gentleman of the old school, and was much moved when the Prime Minister raised his glass with a bland expression and toasted President Roosevelt's Kentuckian in these words...