Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queer feeling Virginia had when I phoned her during an air raid and announced that I was at St. Marie's hospital. I had visited there to contact and help to evacuate two Catholic sisters. They left here on the President Hoover. I took them to the Customs Jetty. Their departure was heralded by a Chinese plane and Japanese antiaircraft fire. Virginia today received a phone call from one of the remaining American sisters who stated that the evacuees had left for the States from Manila on the President Hoover which you know was bombed. One of the sisters...
Often called the greatest living diplomat is M. Alexis Léger, Secretary-General of the French Foreign Office. Wedded firmly to Paris, he never stirs abroad if he can help it, and overseas territories are to him outlandish pawns, to be played coldly in diplomacy's great game. Last week M. Alexis Léger, much to his distaste, was obliged to quit his beloved Paris for a few days in order to coach Premier Camille Chautemps and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos at London in the opening hands of a game for breathtakingly high stakes. Green...
...forgive us! Create in us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us. Help us, we beseech Thee, to bring forth fruits worthy of repentance that we may be redeemed from the joul clutches of this national evil, and may order all our ways in the fear and love of God. Amen...
...actors as they step forward to sing or speak his pieces. If this method is from necessity-the famous, misnamed Russian Realistic Theatre uses it from choice and with stunning effect-it proves, nevertheless, that if a playwright has enough to say he needs neither sets nor costumes to help him say it. What Mr. Blitzstein has to say concerns what happens to bosses and workers when a steel town goes on strike. If sometimes he uses stock characters and stock works, he more often uses bright, biting satire. The audience laughs out loud when the spoiled son and daughter...
There's a fair crowd every afternoon down at Briggs Cage, but Mikkola isn't satisfied. "We could use more men in every event. We're particularly short of pole vaulters. They don't have to be experienced, but it would help if they were about six feet tall, pretty fast on their feet, and could stand on their hands...