Word: lone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lost. He backed Theodore Roosevelt for the Presidency in 1912. He backed Charles Evans Hughes in 1916 and James Middleton Cox in 1920. He backed Hiram Johnson for the Presidency in 1924. In 1928 he voted vainly for Al Smith. Nominally a Republican, he liked to call himself a "lone wolf" in politics. In 1932 for the first time, Lone Wolf Ickes picked
...moved to Hangchow "to be out of range of foreign warships." Ostensibly all China's new Hawks will be Chinese piloted in any fighting which may take place. During the Shanghai battle at least one U. S. pilot, handsome Robert Short of Tacoma, Wash., took up a lone Boeing against six Japanese combat planes, killed one Japanese pilot and was shot down to death in flames (TIME...
...Presbyterian evangelism division had indorsed it. There are small Sin-Boards. 6x9 in., for use during sermons, and cardboard sheets 40 x 48 in., which sell for $1. Some sins and peccadillos on Preacher Young's list: Adultery Hypocrisy Agnosticism Inferiority Complex Aping the World Miserliness Being a Lone Wolf Murder Class Distinction Road Hog Dispositional Temper Sabbath Desecration Waste of Others'Time Waste of One's Time Drinking Gambling Time
...cleared, heart trouble kept "Brother Charley" on his back until last week. In March died Robert Beecher Howell, Nebraska's Republican Senator, but Governor Bryan was too ill to appoint a Democratic successor; the State had to get along month after month with George William Norris as its lone Senator. Ambitious to sit in the Senate, "Brother Charley" pondered ways & means of appointing himself to the vacancy. His doctors told him he would never reach Washington alive, and the Senate would not swear him in in his bedroom at Lincoln. A bitter party feud between the Governor and Arthur...
Austria's little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss last week fought on, lone effective champion against seeping German Naziism whose cells are sprouting not only in Austria, but Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the German minorities of Jugoslavia and Rumania. To his aid unintentionally came Germany's Adolf Hitler. Affronted by Dollfuss' slap last fortnight to Nazi Envoy Hans Frank. Hitler countered last week with a 1,000-mark ($272.50) visa charge for Germans visiting Austria. This was a $3,000,000 slap to Austria's tourist business. But it squelched patriotic Austrians who have wanted a Middle European combine...