Word: looks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a peculiar feeling in this country of slipping down a declivity. There is always something that is neither stimulating nor desirable waiting just a few days ahead. This has been waiting a few days ahead ever since the war started; and things now look as though they are hurrying up. Perhaps one of the most insane and pathetic things that has happened occurred last week. You don't have news bills in New York: the generous headlines of your newspapers really take the place of our news placards, and your bawling news boys with their "read all about...
Procedure. Russia's position was beginning to look embarrassing. Plain fact was that, as soon as City of Flint sailed under the German flag, it risked capture by British warships, faced at the minimum a 1,300-mile voyage through blockaded waters, at least 50 miles of known mine fields, to reach a German port. Equally plain was it that, if Russia permitted the ship to remain in port, she violated international law, that if she released it to her U. S. owner (as the U. S., after a Supreme Court decision, eventually released the Appam), she would antagonize...
...Repeated his inquiries about the welfare of the U. S. crew, which was beginning to look like the unluckiest pawn in the game...
...Pennsylvania Railroad last month added W. E. S. Miller of Woodbury, N. J., George Carr of Lindenwold, N. J., 22 other furloughed clerks. Being veteran Pennsy employes and substantial citizens of their communities, Messrs. Miller & Carr decided to do something more than eat up savings, look for Relief, or moan to the neighbors. What they did was to form a "Legion of the Damned...
...weeks Broadway has had a dazed look in its eyes, a toothy grin on its face, and its itching fingers crossed. For, week by week, the line in front of its box offices grew longer and longer. Broadway was frightened to look for reasons, for fear of jinxing itself. But plausible reasons there were...