Word: goings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beaming figure called Third Term perched on a stairway, to the consternation of Conservative Democrats below, and quoting New York University Professor Mearns's jingle about the little man who wasn't there: "He wasn't there again today: Oh, how I wish he'd go away." Ordinarily irritated at reporters' prodding about the third term, generally inviting them to go stand in the corner, put on the dunce cap, or merely rewarding them with a testy glance if they so much as asked about it, President Roosevelt last week was jovial too. A reporter...
...destitute of courage and moral sense. . . . One of my sons was gassed and the other was a combatant soldier. . . . But a nation without spirit or an elevated soul is as bad as a derelict on the seas. . . . This country should not be content simply to eat and sleep and go to the movies. That would be a sorry contribution to modern civilization...
...other crops and measures to assure themselves a permanent endurable food supply over a many year sea blockade. Soldiers alone, either those of the enemy, or the revolutionary groups at home, win wars. Even if the German army were to suppress all Nazi leaders, the war would probably go on just the same...
...petition, which appeals to the Corporation to "eliminate this threat to Harvard's universally acclaimed standards of instruction," will be delivered to a representative of the Corporation early next week, Ross said, and copies will go to all the other members...
...from down under went back home this fall, too late to go to the war with the first Australian contingent of airmen, but certain to be in the next one sent to the front...