Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jessie Matthews, colts, and other cute people have long legs. What can Miss Peck be thinking of, to consider the expression disgusting, and an uncomplimentary slur...
...straight relief as opposed to work relief: "I tell my visitor that never so long as I am President of the United States will I condemn millions of men and women to the dry rot of idleness on a dole. . . . I do not have to be told that 5% of the projects are of questionable value. . . . I am proud of the fact that 95% of the projects are good...
...Rochester Reliefer is Miss Mabel McFiggins. "I used to work in a button factory," said middle-aged Miss McFiggins, "but that was a long time ago. My arthritis, y'know." Along with others on local relief in Rochester, Miss McFiggins last week received her semimonthly check from the city welfare department. She then did something that Reliefers had never done before. She bought a booklet of orange and blue stamps issued by the U. S. Government, thus became the first feminine guinea pig in an experiment designed by the Department of Agriculture to relieve the glut of surplus farm...
Paul Howard Douglas has spent almost half his 47 years teaching political economy and sociology at the University oi Chicago. Politics has long been his avocation. In 1932 he urged all non-conservatives to vote for Norman Thomas. Last year he was the principal speaker at an anti-Nazi mass meeting...
...exiled almost all her gold to safer regions, has completed plans for opening her dikes to flood a large part of the country. In the north countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, not only have there been increased expenditures for arms, but the four small nations have long been banded together as the Oslo Powers to present a united front to the world in general and to aggressors in particular. The idea was that where the voice of one small nation might not carry far, the voice of four would...