Word: mends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twilight comes to mend All the fantastic day's caprice...
...succeed Mr. Howe as his No. 1 secretary when one morning the gaunt little patient awoke, looked about him, asked for a cigaret. Hastily five doctors were called into consultation, gravely decided that the crisis was past. Although the "ultimate prognosis was not good," Mr. Howe was on the mend. Hastily the President's bags were packed and the same evening he entrained for Florida feeling happier about his faithful Louis Howe than he had in days...
...vastly more than she buys, these Governments need only seize and collect payments which their citizens would otherwise make to Germany. In a stiff speech to the House of Commons hawk-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain explicitly threatened to do this, but gave Germany July 1 to mend her ways, amend her moratorium. Since the U. S. sells to Germany more than she buys, Washington statesmen could not take the drastic steps threatened in London and Paris, but the U. S. Embassy in Berlin was ordered to make ''vigorous protest...
...resign as head of the National Committee until he had finished rearranging the Democratic pack. Last week the shuffle began. First card dealt was a new Treasurer to dig up funds for next autumn's Congressional campaign, to pay the party's $500,000 debt, to mend financial fences in anticipation of 1936. The post was decorously offered to John Sanford Cohen, the job-hungry publisher of the Atlanta Journal. He declined it, presumably because it was short on prestige and profits. Within 24 hours Mr. Farley made his second choice and Walter Joseph Cummings...
...Reader Baird mend his manners. The late John Sharp Williams retired from public life aged 69, died at 78. Virginia's Senator Glass is hale, vigorous, clear-minded at 76. That he continues to oppose President Roosevelt's monetary policies, as does many another U. S. citizen, may scarcely be taken as proof of senility. As for advertising "trickery": Are any other readers unable to see at once that the Heinz copy is advertising...