Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gobbled up the entire continent of Africa, excepting Ethiopia and Liberia, previous to the World War. There did not seem to be much difference between these aggressions and Italy's, except that hers had been committed after the World War, which was presumed to have ended aggression, but hadn't. ... As had happened in India and elsewhere, my preconceived ideals were reluctantly shouldered aside by less high-minded, practical considerations." After flying home on the Hindenburg, Webb Miller retreated last May to Connecticut to write his book...
...that will become necessary if he is to have an effective organization. . . . I will be very much surprised if this does not turn out to be about the best managed Republican national campaign since 1896." In his own defense, John Hamilton declares of his Western tour: "If I hadn't made the trip there wouldn't be a Republican organization in that section...
Occasionally with a first edition deadline approaching, a reporter would get a little panicky and send in a story which he hadn't fully digested and toned down to the correct level. One reporter on a Boston paper sent in a column of involved technicalities, featured by a formula containing a number of "n'a", "x'a", and "y's". The first edition carried the story, but it was rewritten for succeeding editions after the city editor had called up and asked, "Say, what the hell is this stuff, anyway. We don't know what it means...
...private collection in Switzerland, and I have four Matisse interiors, new ones. It's an amazing thing about Matisse. He's getting on in years, you know, and everyone thought he had shot his bolt in art. He's 67 or 68 years old and he hadn't shown anything in two years. But this year he had a show in Paris that would knock your...
...think we ought to let the neighbors know that if I hadn't given 'my notice' to Mammon, the number of words in this effusion would cost plenty. . . . I got the orders I've been asking...