Word: ois
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chancery Court last week Advisory Master Robert Grosman awarded a divorce and the children to Methodist Eaton granted to Mrs. Eaton the privilege oi visiting her progeny unless she attempted to "instill her atheistic and communistic beliefs" in their minds. Decided the Advisory Master: "She frankly states that she no longer considers herself a Christian She looks on all religion as useless and entertains the deepest contempt for that of her husband...
...been sufficiently perplexed by France's economic and political crisis, a situation trying enough to sink many a lesser head of state as it had already sunk Doumergue and Flandin; but from this sizzling frying-pan he has been compelled to leap into a devil's fire oi a new kind of League politics. Attempting tc give Italy her promised free hand in Ethiopia, he has also acted as an Honest Broker in attempting to manacle that hand and giving the League its first taste of real power by applying sanctions. Regaining his Senate seat twice over, securing...
...step. Though U. S. General Sherman had coined the phrase, the U. S. never grasped the fact that war is hell, thought (under advice) the Germans must be hellions. "Innumerable sensible Americans were . . . genuinely, seriously convinced that Germans were a peculiarly fiendish and brutal race, quite beyond the pale oi ordinary humankind...
...Franz Josef. Among the field pieces which clattered Eugen, many were seen to exceed the 5.5 inch calibre to which Austria is limited by the Treaty of St. Germain. The big surprise to most Austrians, who thought they possessed no treaty-banned battle planes, came when 15 big bombers oi the latest type suddenly thundered into view circled and dipped in salute to Imperial Eugen...
...Eighteen months!" shouted the landlord. "Eighteen months I let her live in my house because I thought her mighty brother would do what a brother should. Oi, oi, eighteen months...