Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the political hog-wallow to which Kentucky's two leading statesmen openly descended last week, two days before the end of their primary contest for Mr. Barkley's seat in the U. S. Senate...
...charged that he was nesting with Communists. "We believe," said they, "that any one has a right to be a Communist or a Holy Roller or whatever they choose, but . . . they must give their first loyalty to their unions and not attempt to use the unions to further the end of any political party...
Ricker), with whom he was arrested in bed last year in Philadelphia. Justice Pecora sharply ordered an end to Davis' visits...
...called an imitation. Cristobal Hernando Pinzon, handsome, precocious hero of the tale, lives for a revenge that is all his own. At 21, on the eve of the World War, Cristobal is a director of a Jesuit bank, making a mere $50,000 a year. At War's end, his daring speculations have made him the richest man in the world. Meanwhile, he has helped rig a Papal election, has picked up two shady stooges and has narrowly missed marrying a rich, broad-shouldered, English adventuress. His next four affairs are merely talismans for guiding his speculations. A Russian...
Aristophanes was sick of the Peloponnesian War when it started. Twenty years later, in 411 B.C., he was even sicker. Athens' allies were slipping away; the Syracuse expedition had ended in crushing disaster. But whenever one side suggested peace, the other side was doing too well with the war to call it off. Then Aristophanes wrote Lysistrata. What if all the women of Athens united, seized the Acropolis, told the men they would live resolutely continent till the war ended? Aristophanes suggested that the war would end at once...