Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father needs your help, and as he is unable to come here from Atlantic City and lead the way himself, he has asked me to deliver his message to Philadelphia, that the regular organization ticket must be nominated tomorrow if our city is to have the high place in the sun she deserves...
...last fortnight, the Nationalist Party formally refused to endorse his candidacy last week. On the other hand, although he claims he is not a member of the Laborite Opposition, the Labor Party announced last week that they would run no candidate in North Sidney, his constituency, evidently intend to help him out covertly, hoping to win him into their camp once more-for until he formed the Nationalists fighting Billy Hughes was a Laborite...
Professor Ward answers these questions and a good many more in the manner of the profound scientist that he is. His lectures are models of clear cut precision which cannot help maintaining the interest of his audience from beginning to end. A thorough set of notes is virtually essential inasmuch as there is no up-to-date text book on the subject and the examinations are based entirely on the lectures...
Said Lord d'Abernon sonorously: "The fact belongs to history that England was the first foreign country to manifest sympathy for Argentina and to offer material help." Then, while his Jockey Club audience occasionally cheered, the Viscount recalled that Britain has nearly two billion dollars invested in Argentina, mostly in railways and cattle. Humorously he noted that Argentina's Prize Bull of 1929 had just been bought at auction in Buenos Aires by the British Bovril (Beef Extract) Co. (slogan: BOVRIL puts BEEF into YOU!). "It seems to me," concluded Viscount d'Abernon, "that the reciprocal friendship uniting our countries...
...back to the barracks he could not help puzzling over the two Voices. He finally decided it must have been something like this...