Word: messe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eastern Europe, can be permanently satisfied by stretches of jungle. In Mein Kampf Hitler puts his colonial aims as a poor second to the hopes of a Pan-Germanic Central Europe. During the negotiations Mussolini also will be working strenuously against Germany's selling her birthright for a mess of fever-ridden desert, for his desires for an Italianate Central Europe rest on the with-drawal of France and England behind the Alps. Redivision of the colonies between the "have" nations and the "havenots" thus seems not to be the touchstone of peace; ultimately Germany and France must come...
...cheers always seemed to end rather unorthodoxly in a jumble of gurgles, splutters, and smothered rattles. After Harvard's second touchdown his cheer rose like unto the sereech of a siren. When his voice fell it was too late, for his false teeth had already fallen, presumably into the mess of feathers, flora, and surrealist architecture which some women's hat-maker is probably proud of. At least that was where he looked for it, much to the consternation of the woman thereunder...
...Then people again turn apathetic. With only shady prospects before him now, Caley realizes at last how little belief there was in his good intentions, how cheaply sensational the general interest had been. In the end, still trying vaguely to do right, he gets mixed up in a complicated mess, shoots a cop, is fatally wounded. Unless the title is completely ironical, this finale must be the act of redemption which causes joy in Heaven "over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance...
...know what this is?" she demanded in a traincaller's voice, which glued the attention of all on the building. "That's their Mess Hall over there...
Along with the property went $800,000 to be paid in back taxes, a vast amount of debts. And Beula Croker's legal affairs are still in such a mess that it may take two or three years of hard litigation to clear the title to all her property...