Word: mortale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Least inclined of all to ''shoot Santa Claus" were the Canadian Government of Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King who have been in mortal fear lest Alf Landon in the White House might crimp the Canadian-U.S. Trade Treaty. This treaty has proved one of the most potent forces in spurring Canadian recovery and the New York Times's Ottawa correspondent wired that its rupture would be "a dagger-thrust for the present Canadian Government...
...retrospect there was strong suspicion that the Conservative British Government and the Bolshevik Russian Government had each come to the conclusion that they could make political capital out of an overt and noisy appearance of supporting the Spanish Cabinet, just as Madrid was in mortal danger of falling to the Whites (see p. 34). Should it fall without either Stanley Baldwin or Joseph Stalin having done anything to uphold Spanish Democracy or Spanish Bolshevism-these being matters of the point of view-what was Mr. Baldwin to say afterward to British devotees of Democracy, and what was Comrade Stalin...
Twice in the last fortnight I found myself in mortal danger. This is the story. I am an Australian. In my country I have played four types of football. Naturally enough I wanted to see the American variety, so I hied me to the Stadium to see the Harvard squad romp over Amherst and Brown...
...acres on which Canada's War memorial stands have been deeded by France to the Canadian Government. Said King Edward: "Though the mortal remains of Canada's sons be far from home, here where we now stand their immortal memory is hallowed upon soil that is as surely Canada's as any within her nine provinces...
...year, was betrayed by a spy in his gang, pinked while preparing to rob a bank at Round Rock. In his lawless career, the only man for whose death he was responsible was a deputy who fell in the general mêlée when Bass received his mortal wound...