Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skipped his failures, harped on his successes; he made hopeful headlines about declining expenditures hereafter. And above all he seemed to have a thoroughly good time. Excerpts from his speech: "I am happy to be in Georgia. I am proud of Georgia. . . . Eleven years ago I came to live at Warm Springs for the first time. That was a period of great so-called prosperity. ... In that orgy of 'prosperity' a wild speculation was building speculative profits for the speculators and preparing the way for the public to be left 'holding the bag.' ... In that orgy...
...Minister to Canada (1927), she played a notable part in her husband's career. The wealth of the Phillipses which has opened to him posts which were closed to other career diplomats has also been a drawback, for they have ever found difficulty in securing adequate living quarters. In Brussels they lived for some time in the two front rooms of a pension. When Secretary of State and Mrs. Hughes arrived to visit them they had to give up their own beds and find others at the back of the house. Later they rented the palatial...
...garrison town of Aldershot 27-year-old Lance Corporal Mortimer did not have to live in barracks because he had a wife at whose house he was supposed to spend the night. Nobody thought much of his occasional remark that "there are too many females on wheels in this world." For that matter the late, great "Lawrence of Arabia" who died in a motoring accident (TIME. May 27), was also a woman-hater, was also annoyed by women cyclists, and also used to tear over the roads. Five months ago Mortimer started suiting action to his words. In succession...
...tutor stood up and said that he didn't want to make himself obnoxious but that he thought the thing had better stop. The girls and boys all hooted him down and began to make bets on how long the host would live after Burlingame had finished with him. I tell you they're awfully jolly, very, very jolly out at Cambridge. Those boys just take everything as a joke. May be that's why a certain Boston Debutante is so definitely that way about three or four of them and doesn't mind proving...
...asking the producers of oil and other necessities of war to live up to the spirit behind the Neutrality Act Mr. Hull and Mr. lucks have been displaying an almost childlike faith in the goodness of human nature. How any businessman can be expected to pass by fat profits and refuse to sell a commodity not at all forbidden by the neutrality legislation is hard to understand. This so-called "moral pressure" is typical of the present administration's tendency to use force which it has not the conviction to ask-Congress to legalize...