Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commons has not heard for a generation. Labor and Liberal opposition leaders joined the crowd of M.P.'s who rushed up to shake Neville Chamberlain's hand and tell him how relieved they and their constituents were that now Britain would not be bombed. But Anthony Eden was seen to walk out, unsmiling, white-lipped...
...would seem that the French mobilizing of one million men and Chamberlain' about breaking of the conversations with Hitler were an attempt to regain loss of leadership and to act upon the sentiments of the French and British people. Perhaps Chamberlain and Daladier took to heart Anthony Eden's statement that "continued retreat can only lead to ever widening confusion" or Maxim Litivinoff's cry that Britain and France were "avoiding a problematical war today in return for a certain and large-scale war tomorrow." Perhaps Hitler raised his demands to a limit which could not even be acceptable...
...Author Vercel's previous four novels published in the U. S. (In Sight of Eden, Captain Conan, Salvage, Lena), the story is told in terse, dramatic style. And, like them, Tides of Mont St.-Michel is about equally good and bad. Good are the descriptions of storms, fogs, quicksands, natural violence; bad, melodramatic are the descriptions of the storms and fogs of human relations...
...most potent force of its kind in the country. It was the President's zeal to show the proletariat that he would do as much for it as he is doing for the peasantry which caused him last spring abruptly to pick the oil Apple in the Mexican Eden-i.e., confiscate the $400,000,000 oil properties when their owners, who had already yielded much to their Mexican workers, refused to make more concessions for which Lázaro Cárdenas fought (TIME, March...
...women. . . . He's handsome and he's got magnetism and a gift of words. And he's had lots of practice." He had started a commune on a parcel of land in Virginia which the Apostle Paul assured him was the site of the Garden of Eden. That broke up because of his predilection for young girls. During the diphtheria epidemic the Templers had not been able to harvest the crops. They had no way of getting through the winter. James Prince had $20,000. Despite the opposition of Isaiah, Father Swann took...