Word: mires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marked contrast to its supporters, who insist on speaking of trenches, mire, and flags, etc., the opposition to the bill headed by prominent educators has replied in sober language. They view the bill merely as an aspersion on their loyalty and seek, with pathetic eagerness, to discover reasons for the bill's existence lurking somewhere in the background...
When Adolf Hitler seized power Germany's trade balance had been favorable for three years and thus her vital imports were more than paid for by the proceeds of her exports. While this lasted the Fatherland could be considered economically afloat, no matter how deeply Germany might mire herself in the morass of moratoriums declared by blunt, bluff Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank...
...which has been a literary sensation throughout France, is an adventure story of one Bardamn, an impressionable young French doctor. Bardamn is caught in the flood tide of the war and when the evil game of killing is ended, finds himself part of the "lost generation," stranded in the mire of post-war degeneration...
...Sears' eulogy of the slain Indian Metacom (King Philip): "Metacom--mighty warrior!--mighty patriot!--they could speak sneeringly of him now that he was lying dead in the mud, lie at whose name they had quailed when life was vibrant in him. They drag that kingly form through the mire and buffet it as nothing now but an old piece of clay! . . . . Where was that 'Great Cause' now? Right before them, sunk in the mud, so they would have answered. But how little they knew!" After all, how could they have known that Miss Sears would resurrect...
...York's police. He hotly described the Tammany administration as "a damnable pack of administrative bloodhounds, polluted harpies, and a lying, perjured, rum-soaked, libidinous lot." When he failed either to substantiate or retract his charges, a grand jury denounced him for "dragging New York into the mire and wiping his feet on it." He determined to collect proof of his charges personally. Disguised in checked black & white trousers, red flannel tie and slouch hat, as a rich Westerner eager to see New York, he went at night into brothels and Chinese opium dens, consorted with gamblers, crooks...