Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though he lisps, the tone and personality of General Balbo are pugnacious, virile, truculent. *Blackest stain on the reputation of Blackshirt Benito Mussolini is the widespread notion that he personally ordered the assassination of the multi-millionaire Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti, who was unquestionably done to Death by Fascists (TIME, June...
...were now ready to help out the onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Speaker Garner, they reported, was ready to drop his candidacy for first place on the ticket, provided he was given second place. Under the influence of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, flattered with the notion of making a President, Mr. McAdoo was ready to swing Texas and California to Roosevelt and thus bury the hatchet?in Al Smith's back. At this news Mr. Howe's wrinkled face wrinkled even more. Reaching for the telephone, he called Governor Roosevelt in Albany to confirm the deal. The Governor would...
...Marmaduke Grove (Gro-vay) is part Irish. His show of Irish temper to 100% Chilean officers cost him Power. Aristocrats, they were shocked to their military marrow by his notion of 'talking to privates." Promptly they began to plot against "Red" Grove. In 48 hours soldiers under General Augustin Moreno were marching on the Presidential Palace...
...smart President, to be reelected, must not overcapitalize on his office. With so much power and prestige at his command he must lean over backward to create the popular notion that being President of all the People is his first consideration and being a partisan candidate for another term is only of secondary importance. Such was President Hoover's air last week. Outwardly he took no official notice whatever of the fact that his party was assembled in Chicago to renominate...
...hedgerow flowers, the old oast-houses, the picnics in Flatropers Wood there emerge, for Selina at least, glimpses of the ancient lyric dream of Albion. But for all that, the girls squabble like fury now & then, kick violently against their nurse's pricks. When the children get the notion that she wants to marry-whatever that might be -they propose for her to Jarman, one of the muckier farm hands. "Not I!" says Jarman. "You dreadful children!" says the nurse. When they are back in the dirty brick city of Hastings again, "Oh God," prays Selina, "please...