Word: hearses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Knights of Malta sent off a solid gold jewel-encrusted falcon as a gift to their sixteenth century over-lord, Charles V of Spain, they could hardly have imagined the complications that would ensue when it cast its shadow over the lives of an English gentleman of leisure...
Hears Complaints
Kansas lately has been restive under isolationist leadership. Governor Ratner, who keeps his ear close to the ground, knows the rumble of a stampede when he hears it approaching. With his speech last week he put himself squarely on the side he thinks will win when isolationism gets its first...
The President works like a newspaper copy-desk's man-in-the-slot, farming out assignments to his staff according to their abilities. Through Justice Felix Frankfurter he hears from England's Economist Harold Laski, about the international New Deal; and John G. Winant, Ambassador to the Court...
Cholera, which he caught during the 1912 uprising in Yemen, made him deafer, but that deafness has often been, and is today, his greatest asset as a statesman. He hears what he wants to hear. After failing to hear something he does not want to hear he has been known...