Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chance to do that. But in Great Britain they may step back to the House of Commons, start over, criticize and mold Government policy by the weight of their experience-particularly if, as in the case of Mr. Churchill, events prove their judgment correct, and they have a good chance to get back into power...
Experience. Historic sessions were no novelty for Mr. Churchill. For 37 of his 65 years he has been a member of Parliament, a steady dweller of the eight acres of stone where more good things have been said, and more windy platitudes expounded, than anywhere else on earth-with the possible exceptions of the ancient Roman and present U. S. Senates. Even his greatest admirers admit that he has said more than his share of both. As First Lord of Admiralty he sat on the Government benches on the hushed night of Aug. 3, 1914. Out of the Government after...
...forget that he had been in eight Liberal Cabinets before he became a Conservative; party disciplinarians disliked him because he could not be plainly labeled, could not be made to obey. Complained one perplexed writer: "It is the ultimate Churchill that escapes us. I think he escapes us for good reason. He is not there." Proving that he was somewhere, Churchill replied that parties changed their programs more often than he did, but added, with magnificent understatement, "I have a tendency against which I should perhaps be on my guard; it is to swim against the stream...
...admissions jumped, by last week were averaging 37,600 daily. At this rate by its closing date, December 2, it would have 12,000,000 customers, 40% fewer than originally expected, 13% fewer than San Francisco's 1915 exposition. But at this rate it is netting a good operating profit instead of barely meeting expenses...
...include the month of August (the Fair's,best so far) nor do they show that practically the entire operating profit was made in the last two months of the six accounted for. In 124 days (Aug. 1 to Dec. 2) to go the Fair has a good chance of breaking even...