Word: foes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eleven thousand miles from Australia in London last week Laborite Scullin's foe & predecessor, former Nationalist Premier Stanley Melbourne Bruce, seemed flabbergasted by the suddenness of the Government's fall. Unable to get back to Australia in time for the General Election (which Mr. Scullin promptly announced to take place Dec. 19), Mr. Bruce frantically kept in touch with friends in Australia who organized a "Committee of 100" to try to win him a seat in Flinders, Victoria...
...Life" ends and the new begins, people will take down the dusty bound volumes reflecting that "Its foe was folly, and its weapon...
...dare they? In Manhattan one Basile W. Delgass, former vice president of Amtorg but now its foe and an informant to U. S. businessmen (TIME, Sept. 29, 1930) termed Amtorg's reference to easy European credits "a song of days that are past...
Before They Were Men records the school careers of Sleepy Carter and Shadow O'Neill, intermittent enemies but mostly pals, from the greenness of "rats" (new boys) to the ripe old age which will land them in the University. At outs with each other, either was a guileful foe; together they considered themselves invincible. Typical escapade: When Shadow nearly won the reading competition by a dramatic recital of Poe's "The Telltale Heart" Sleepy stole the show by surreptitious drumbeating, by launching a large heart-shaped balloon at the climax. But Author Wertenbaker does not always load...
...Minister Tom Shaw who declared, "I can't understand it!"; former First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander; former Minister of Health Arthur Greenwood; former Minister of Labor Miss Margaret ("St. Maggie") Bondfield; famed female Trade Unionist Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson; and Oliver Baldwin, Socialist son & foe of Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin. Downward through the party, defeat was uniform. In municipal council elections, Conservatives made an early net gain of 144 seats; Liberals 21; Independents 36. Labor lost...