Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tuneful song called It Was Folly; in Russia, where football squads are drilling for the summer season; in London, where the most popular song is Deep Purple. Over the crisis-worn continent last week the people were moving under cloudless skies; the wheat was up, the fishing was good, and a wave of celebrations, fairs, festivals, holidays, anniversaries, colored the old towns from Liége in Belgium to Brashov in Rumania...
...involving a mother in love with her son, a son in love with the father's mistress, and a maiden aunt in love with the father. Spring, a week late, hit Paris with an intoxicating sequence of superb days. Out in the country, wheat, barley and oats looked good; the 1,500,000 vineyard owners had their spring shoots in the ground; fishermen were beginning to pull in their annual 5,000 tons of fish from France's inland waters. In Brittany it is the time for spring pardons-the old, unique, Breton folk custom that permits...
...briefly next morning at Medicine Hat, Alberta, where the Queen became so interested in a girl band from Big Sandy, Montana, 350 miles away, that the King was obliged to remind her that the train was waiting. At Calgary 200,000 Canadians and U. S. citizens up for a good time gave the royal couple a rousing western welcome. Two thousand Blackfeet, Sarcees, Piegans and Stonys whooped and hollered in their most intimidating manner while their chiefs conferred on George VI a new title: "Great Chief Albino...
...Leon Blum, serving as part of France's New Deal which ousted the 200 families from control of the Bank of France, which established the , 40-hour week, which refused to crack down on sit-down strikers. When reaction to these measures finally forced out Socialist Blum for good, a less radical leader came to power: Radical Socialist Edouard Daladier. Socialists and Communists gave him day-by-day support, but it was easy to see that the Popular Front's days were numbered. Edouard Daladier became Premier on the day that Fiihrer Hitler was holding his plebiscite...
...want to be courteous to me, won't you, when you go to bed at night, just say a prayer for me, as I go forth as a good Christian soldier to heal our wounds...