Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johnson won by a solid margin, 162,688-to-136,264. Pat Harrison, unembarrassed by jibes at his constant switching, was now embarrassed in the way a politician best understands it. Apparently faded were his hopes of appearing at the 1940 Democratic National Convention in a good trading position as Mississippi's Favorite Son, for now Bilbo and Johnson will have first say in naming Mississippi's 18 delegates. And "The Man," long-standing Third Termite for Franklin Roosevelt, could lounge happily on the green satin chairs of his lonesome 25-room mansion near Poplarville, Miss...
...German border was not reopened except to pedestrians. Exports stopped moving into Hitlerland from Mussoliniland, because the neutrality which B. Mussolini announced for himself was a status which Britain and France, preoccupied though they were with other business, watched with stern, forbidding eyes. The only good Indian used to be a dead Indian. The only safe Mussolini from now on is a Mussolini whose hand performs as his tongue has avowed...
...These few simple garments make for speedy dressing; they will give adequate protection if the worker gets overwarm and will keep tidy and give good hard wear...
...army to free the land. The two were as disparate as Lincoln and Douglas: Pilsudski, gaunt, one-track, humorous, dynamic, with the gigantic, inspirational mind of a fanatical leader; Smigly-Rydz, graceful, versatile, serious, dull, with a big mind, too, but a professor's logical, inquisitive, with a good memory. But they liked each other, and Pilsudski persuaded the young student to give up painting and take up sharpshooting. He did, so enthusiastically that by 1916 he won a gold watch as the best marksman in the (then Austrian) Army. He fought under his leader against Russia on the Eastern...
...frap over a port called Danzig and a 50-mile wide carpet to the sea. It was, in the eyes of General Smigly-Rydz, a holy war. It was a war to stop the Devil, A. Hitler, before he put horns, cleft feet and an arrowy tail on every good Catholic in Poland. It was a war in which Providence would play a part. "We shall win," declared the Premier, "by the Holy Passion of Our Lord. He will lead us to victory." But before the week was out, the Devil's legions had captured Czestochowa, the Black Madonna...