Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON;--The answer to the prayer of every poor sinner who ever said. "Oh, let's get the hell out of this mess!" is a south sea island. Be it the Napoleonic cra when the book "Swiss Family Robinson" was written or the Hitlerian cra when Hollywood put it on celluloid, the story still holds good. True, it creaks in sports. The more lurid parts of Wyss's work had to be soft-pedaled and even then the final script was bogged down with verbiage as thick as the tropical vegetation. But such vivid scenes as the hurricane...
...last week Pennsylvania's Democrats were in a mess as involved as the composition of Philadelphia scrapple. But Pennsylvania's Democrats were used to it, and many a voter was resigned to a Republican victory in the autumn...
...Walter Jones's name stood for "Adelbert"; 2) the responding insinuation that the "F" in Joe Guffey's name stood for "Fauntleroy." (Mr. Guffey has long & stoutly maintained that the "F" stands for nothing.) As in many a State last week (see p. 18), the Democrats' mess was the Republicans' pottage. Happy and united were the Republicans. The man they had picked to take Joe Guffey's Senate seat was Jay Cooke IV, who, like Penrose, is what is known as a scion, also comes from Philadelphia's famed 8th Ward...
...fine mess when out of an annual Harvard graduating class of 1000 men, 9,999 of them can't even go down to Central Square and talk to one of the inhabitants intelligently on the value of a liberal education...
...election by throwing his support to Almazán, but that would probably mean the end of Mexico's New Deal. The future of the Cárdenas revolution depends to a large extent upon paradoxical international relations. Although politically aligned with the democracies, Mexico's economic mess has driven the country into closer economic relations with Japan, Germany and South American countries. Mexico still mortally fears gringo imperialism, whose representatives are again taking advantage of internal conditions to exploit the tour ist trade and mineral industries on the strength of the falling peso. And the Government will...