Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park and returned from his annual cross-country survey "to see what the nation is thinking." Until July 15 (at least) Congress will simmer in Washington over: 1) Neutrality legislation, which had seemed moribund until Secretary Hull pleaded last week for amendments to allow sale of arms to (good) nations at war, 2) a tax bill, 3) Social Security. Mr. Roosevelt could feel relieved that Congressional items like further WPA investigation and revision of the Wagner Act seemed likely to die of overweight...
...Neighbor Nicaragua got $2,000,000 in credits from Mr. Roosevelt (arranged by the Bank of the Manhattan Company and guaranteed by the Export-Import Bank) as a consequence of President Anastasio Somoza's visit (TIME, May 15). Next good neighbor (Brazil was first: $50,000,000 in March) expecting a handout: Paraguay...
Water fights in Winthrop House may be fine. Everyone has a good time and no bystanders are harmed unless they walk out of doors carelessly. But let these little affairs stay inside the court. Once outside they may come up against senses of humor which are not hyper-developed like those of college students. Harvard and Cambridge are mated, even though they may be incompatible. Reality says to each to make the best...
...letters is dated 1814, while Madison was still President and the War of 1812 was drawing to its close. The last was written in 1881, when Emerson's mind was beginning to dim. He could no longer spell the simplest words, recall the simplest names. "He was a good man," he said standing at Longfellow's bier, "I cannot remember his name." To Sam Bradford, "oldest of friends," he says in a last letter, "I have ceased to write, because the pen refuses to spell...
...walked out again, leaped on a horse, tore hell-roaring for home, tired by his six-day spree. Pa Booker yanked him from his mount, upturned him, soundly paddy-whacked him. Pa then took Aubrey into town, handed him over to the police, explained : "All he needed was a good whuppin...