Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier's. If the Young Marshal had demanded say $50,000,000 ransom money, the whole thing would have been orthodox, for Mme Chiang is of China's great financial family, the House of Soong, and if they have not got $50,000,000 they know how to raise it on a few hours' notice "for the welfare of China" from the country's richest class...
...Coronation ceremony), Her Majesty was far more right than she was wrong in the eyes of English churchgoers. The unspeakable dilemma in the case of Edward VIII in recent weeks has been: "Can there be consecrated, as a part-priest or part-Pope, one who we all know has done everything to face us with the fact that he is resolved to marry a lady with a past, even if we did our best to keep him from making this known...
...Duke of Windsor as "alien," called him as though already dead "our late King," denounced his "craving for private happiness" and referred to the present War Secretary of Great Britain, Captain Alfred Duff-Cooper and other close intimates of Edward VIII, thus: "Let those who belong in this circle know that today they stand rebuked...
There could not have been in the House of Commons a single member who did not know that this opening was a bland reversal of the facts-yet so bold and sweeping that it rose not to the crescendo of a lie but to that of the most convincing and comfortable assurance which a Prime Minister could feel it his awful duty to make. Mr. Baldwin went on to tell how these two perfect friends had confided to each other that the one wanted to marry Mrs. Simpson and the other, while not venturing to advise, still less to blame...
...Baldwin explained to the House of Commons last week as truthfully as a bank president reassuring alarmed depositors. Mr. Baldwin observed: "I would like to say at the start that His Majesty, as Prince of Wales, honored me for many years with a friendship which I value, and I know that he would agree with me in saying to you that it was not only a friendship, but, between man and man, a friendship of perfection...