Word: mires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press. Last week President-elect Roosevelt was apparently determined to keep his hands off the 72nd Congress as it sank deeper and deeper into the mire of legislative futility. He had tried to influence its doings by remote control, only to set off fresh squabbles within his own party and draw a round of criticism in the Press. As President-elect, he found he could not enforce his authority on Congress until he knew what he wanted and what he wanted he had not yet made up his mind...
...handsome, grey-haired American who is staying at the Savoy Hotel, London, with his smart wife and charming daughter?well, his foundations may easily be knee-deep in the mire of the underworld. What is more, he may be only vaguely aware that this really matters. . . . King Crime is enthroned, and his influence extends over the whole vast country, but checking very abruptly at the Canadian border and not flowing over even into Mexico. ... A criminal army of 1,000,000 persons is operating in the United States and 25,000 gangsters alone have died by gunfire since Prohibition came...
Works of the following artists will be shown: Pierre Roy, Chirico, Picasso, Coetean, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, Masson, Mire, and Viollier...
...Ranji" was champion cricket batsman for All England, scoring 2,780 runs with an average of 59.91 -figures which Englishmen still ad mire. Today the "Ranji" cricket tradition is carried on by his nephew Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji who, as the Cricketers' Almanac for 1930 observes, "if not so famous as his renowned uncle ... is ... one of the great batsmen of the younger generation. . . . Like his uncle he possesses a remarkable eye and a pair of most supple wrists...
...inches deep in parts of the Royal Enclosure, svelte ladies lost their shoes in the mud, everyone's long skirt got spattered and trampled, picture hats were lost, soaked and crushed in the mad scramble for cover, everyone's car or bus seemed to stick in the mire, and long after dark bedraggled gentlemen with utterly ruined grey toppers drove sadly up to London in waterlogged sport cars, their womenfolk clustered on sodden back seats with tired, disgusted, hair-streaked faces...