Word: earlier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November, Britain and France agreed to hold hands economically as long as the war lasts. Last week, just to make sure, they joined themselves with silver handcuffs. The earlier agreement was to cooperate in the general fields of munitions, raw materials, economic warfare, oil, food, shipping. Last week's agreement covered the commodity which controls all those fields-money...
Gable's head was in a whirl. Hundreds of the prettiest little girls he had ever seen had surrounded him earlier. One looked at him a little too long, gasped: "Lord, I can't stand this any longer," fainted. An eleven-year-old girl, given a choice of getting a Christmas present or meeting Clark Gable, chose Gable. When Gable kissed her, she asked, "Now am I a woman...
Last fortnight, just before his contract with the World-Telegram expired (TIME, Dec. 11), Broun signed a new contract with the New York Post. Then in Connecticut he took to his bed with bronchitis. To the World-Telegram, a few days earlier than usual, he sent his annual Christmas parable about the two old kings and the young wise man. (His great & good friend, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, once read it at a Christmas ceremony in Washington.) For the Post he wrote but one column...
...Swingin' the Dream, a jitterbug version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, opened a week earlier; but no self-respecting Bard-hunter would stalk such mongrel prey...
...relieve insomnia, go to bed an hour earlier than usual each night for two weeks, obliterate worries with pleasant thoughts of childhood...