Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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POWYS (T.F.) The House With the Echo. Mint...
...economics, to the necessarily large import trade in eligible males, drunk or sober. Having suffered the drain of this trade for many years, having been fed off the fat of the filled land, having danced to expensive orchestras night after night, Harvard is still a bit prone to echo ungratefully Adams' sentiments; to decide, in the gray awakening after a champagne coming-out, to get his next date at Radcliffe...
...Rupprecht of Wittlesbach as "Your Majesty'' and will certainly insist that he be made Regent of BaVaria if a Hohenzollern becomes German Regent. Rupprecht, a good fellow despite his stern exterior, used to joke at continued Bavarian loyalty to himself when the Republic was first proclaimed. Cheered to the echo at Munich, he shouted jovially at the crowd "Fine republicans you are!'' Nowadays, as his twinkling Mercedes carries him about Bavaria, Rupprecht accepts with dignified nods and bows the homage of his "subjects." Beside him rides "Her Majesty," Antoinette of Luxembourg and of Nassau, who was 21 when he married...
...that my father was insinuated into the vice-presidency, there started a reverberation which has an echo in the nomination of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932. Many persons, politicians and non-politicians as well, mutter darkly that there is a misapprehension in the country as to just what relation Franklin is to T. R., and as people have actually congratulated me on the nomination of 'your brother,' perhaps there is some confusion and it is only fair that it should be cleared away. He is my father's fourth cousin once removed. . . . Politically, his branch...
...Washington News. Mr. Kirby, scholarly and artistic, has a distaste for the Opper type of cartoon with its dialog in balloons. He was the pride of the old New York World. He and Talburt were both active in the 1928 campaign and the slogans of that fight echo through their work this year (see Kirby...