Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lizzie." Two days after their splendrous marriage at Westminster Abbey in 1923 the Duchess of York, still technically a "commoner" was made a Royal Princess with the rank of H.R.H. by approving George V. She asked her friends to keep on calling her "Lizzie...
Compared with China's 24 provinces, Tweedledum and Tweedledee are easy to keep straight. There are Hupeh, Hopeh. There are Shensi, Shansi. There are also Hunan, Honan. To say nothing of Kansu, Kiangsu, Kiangsi, Kwangsi, Kwangtung (not to be confused with Kwantung, in Manchukuo).* When the Japanese renewed military operations in China on a big scale, they made things as Tweedledum as possible for U. S. campaign followers by going to work in Kiangsi...
...eyes gouged out" so quickly, her Air .Force smashed before it left the ground, her airfields so pocked with bombs that .Allied planes could not have landed when they got there. To this add the facts that it takes eight service men on the ground ito keep one plane in the air, and that there was none too much airplane gasoline in Poland. Finally, the Nazi Air Force was enormously stronger, from its myriad small home bases, than an expeditionary air force could have been...
Collegians dealt with war and war's rumors in characteristic undergraduate fashion. Princetonians, who few years ago launched the Veterans of Future Wars, last week organized an American Independence League to keep the U. S. out cf war, quickly dispatched letters of correspondence to other colleges. On some 300 campuses, undergraduates signed up for the Federal Government's new pilot training courses. Among them, because they wanted to fly, too, were girls at Mills College (Calif.) and Lake Erie College (Ohio...
Button-eyed Freddie Bartholomew, whose parents have sued him 16 times in four years for slices of his big Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer salary, sought to enjoin them from suits still pending, complained that they keep him in court so much that he does not have time to act properly...