Word: messe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...1790s some Harvard students met on Saturday nights, held mock trials, wound up by slapping together a mess of corn meal and molasses called hasty pudding. Named after the mess, the Hasty Pudding Club went on holding mock trials for 50 years, then in 1844 launched its first play, has offered shows every year since except during the War, is the oldest college dramatic society in the U. S. Former members include Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harvard '61, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71, Novelist Owen Wister '82, Banker John Pierpont Morgan '89, Radical John Reed...
...With conditions as they are, no new passports were being issued, and many old ones cancelled," he explained. "I'm glad to be out of that mess...
...people with a scientific interest. It was designed by an enthusiastic artist named Earl C. Liston. It costs $5,000, about $1,000 more than an ordinary chamber, but it is worth it. With its hydrocyanic gas, it can kill two humans at a time, quickly, efficiently, without any mess. Says Earl Liston, with a craftsman's pride: "Our calculations show that this new chamber should snuff out the life in about 15 seconds...
That your works soon will join the general "mess...
Ever since he became Prime Minister, businesslike Neville Chamberlain has shown he meant to clean up what he considers the mess his predecessor Stanley-Baldwin made of British foreign policy. It was Stanley Baldwin's idea in 1935 to equip Great Britain in effect with two foreign secretaries: 1) a popular young idealist who could win pacifist votes for the Conservative Party; and 2) a veteran statesman who could unobtrusively do such dirty work in foreign policy as might be necessary. He appointed handsome young Anthony Eden to the completely new office of Secretary for League of Nations Affairs...