Word: happiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shade too pleasant, is not being best fitted for the rough and tumble of the world outside. Personally, I do not share this view. For one thing, I believe that it is eminently desirable that men should be able to enjoy during their student days, which are usually the happiest period in their lives, the comforts and amenities of modern civilization. A hard life has often, in the past, been the student's lot; but I see no reason to assume that culture can only thrive where the material conditions of life are made purposely harsh and forbidding...
...Unity of Germans has always been brought about at critical moments," boomed the President, "by the healthy spirit of Germans! "Whoever stands with me helps this spirit and gives me the happiest birthday present. Therefore-Vorwartsmit Gott!" By next morning astute campaigners for von Papen had adopted as their political slogan the President's reverent words: ''Forward with God!" This was more than many a German could stomach. If von Papen was stealing the nimbus of von Hindenburg, then revered Old Paul had himself ceased to be sacrosanct. Soon, for the first time in a German electoral...
...their last pennies laughing and weeping in their beloved Vienna, before braving another decade of hardworking exile in a cruel post-war world. On the stage there is a reunion of some of the best dramatic talent, moving lightly about in a play written by Robert Sherwood in his happiest vein...
...happiest hours Mr. Roosevelt passes at Hyde Park in the house his father bought in 1866 and in which he was born. It is old and colonial. Its clapboard sides have been stuccoed and a stone wing added. French windows look down over a mile of virgin timber through which tumbles a cascade to the river. The estate covers 1,000 acres. Here live or visit his five children, of whom Son Elliott was married last month. Here Mrs. Roosevelt, able, active and animated, runs the Val-Kill shops, where workmen make reproductions of early American furniture by hand. Here...
...giving his recollections of Gray and Woodberry, Mr. Hervey said that the four years in which he worked with the latter on "The Life of Poe", were the happiest he had lived, and he paid tribute of those contemporaries of Amy Lowell. He also lauded the critical work of J. L. Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature...