Word: messe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street in San Francisco, an automobile came around the corner striking me from the rear and putting me through a perfect somersault. I did not have the slightest idea as to what happened until I came to in the street some moments later, in rather a bloody and dirty mess. In relating this incident afterwards-it seems that we must all tell of our operations and accidents-I have stated that there is only one word that can describe the sensation and that was one from the comic strip, namely: "WHAM...
...course the process of weeding out students before they enter a given academic training rather than after they have tried and made a mess of it cannot be foolproof. Not all the new students who heard the cheering message yesterday will see the course through to the end. But the record of this fall's entering class will be watched with interest. For if the experiment of selective admission works out as well in the Law School as it does in other divisions of the University, it should mark the beginning of a new era of improvement at Langdell Hall...
...young wife Ina (Loretta Young) took her to lunch to find out if she did. Deciding that her answer must be yes, Steve walked out. "If I stay," she told the doctor, "I'll lose my sense of humor, the whole thing will end in a mess." The doctor couldn't work without her and became so snappish Ina decided he loved Steve, started for Reno. When, having changed her mind at the airport, she came back and found him drunk in Steve's apartment, Ina throws completely over all the opportunities which actresses have heretofore reaped...
Only in the final paragraphs does the reader discover that Author Adamic intended to be more than picturesque. Here he reveals his real purpose: The Casa del Capuchino, says he, represents the world as "really a Ruin, a Mess, a Wreck." Its restoration represents "what could be done with the Ruin." Interesting for its contrast with Author Adamic's earlier thoughts on the best way to clear "the Ruin" (as set forth in his first book, Dynamite, a historical survey of labor violence in the U. S.) this one will impress some readers as no less...
...provisions of the rickety Neutrality Act. Therefore, in explaining to the press why all 7,780 Americans in China had been warned to get out as fast as possible or stay at their own risk, he described the Sino-Japanese situation not as a war, but as an awful mess. As to applying the Neutrality Act, the President was still on a 24-hour basis...