Word: fer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abie Walbert fon drous hinnich da Lechaw Kerrich drin secht, er gaibt gore nix drum fer maid hame nemma fon da picknicks, yusht's dade'n so narafich mocha bis er sie g'frok'd het. Da onner owet hot er aenie hame shnarra wolla fon dons on Shamrock, ow'r in blotz fon sawga 'Darf ich mit d'r hame lawfa, 'hot er g'sawt. 'Its akinda feicht tonight.' 'S maid'l is noh laenich hame, un so is aw der Abie." Translation: "Abie Walbert from...
...Presbyterian minister. Still in oratorical trim after welcoming Princeton's freshmen two days before, President Dodds took the occasion to declare: "The people love liberty . . . but they put ham and cabbage first, If they can't get them under democracy, they will trans fer their affections and their spiritual val ues to other systems. The blunt fact is that our democracy must cleanse itself . . . if it is to fit itself to be an efficient instrument of social control." That, as it turned out, was just what practical President Eddy proposed...
...discovered by the side of a balky old car, gawking at an aged woman who is hanging from a nearby tree with a crank in her hand. Caption: "C'mon down an' finish crankin' 'er, Gran'maw-Shucks-I'll be late fer school...
...official name of the only railway in Ethiopia is Compagnie du Chemin de Fer Franco-Ethiopien de Djibouti à Addis Ababa. Between magnificent modern stations at either end of the line stretch 494 miles of rough, single-track narrow-gauge roadbed over which a collection of ramshackle second-hand French rolling stock normally makes bi-weekly trips. One of the few pieces of equipment which can compare in splendor with the two terminals is Emperor Haile Selassie's white private car. Because natives along the barren right-of-way are in the habit of prying up steel rails...
...first "holy smuggling" trial fortnight ago was that of Sister Wernera (born Katherine Weidenhöfer) of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in Cologne. Years ago the Sisters of Charity borrowed $100,000 from Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. of St. Louis to complete a nursing hospital in Cologne. On the dot the sisters met installments of their debt, until just $25,000 remained owing by 1935. A Dr. Hofius, good Catholic layman, of the Münster Bank in Westphalia, suggested how this last amount might be paid off. By elaborate code (whenever Mercantile-Commerce...