Word: originated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rumor that spurious $.25 pieces are flooding New England that seems to have hand its origin in the Harvard Club of Boston, was given justification today, when officials of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston admitted to a CRIMSON reporter that such quarters are now being circulated in this district...
...scene, reputedly dead. He returns on the eve of an elaborate soiree by which the two daughters and the husband of one of them, Helford by name, hope to crash the local 400. Much to their alarm their mother, who makes no pretense of her humble origin, engages the genial old wanderer, unaware of his identity, to help her prepare for the affair. He proceeds to set the girls and the ridiculous Helford aright, and, to their horror, takes the party into his own hands, captivates the first socialite of the town and puts the force of evil to rout...
...enmity against the allies as such, but the great majority of them feel that Germany was treated with great injustice by the Treaty of Versailles and their primary thoughts are to be free from the provisions of that treaty. If a these people who are behind Hitler. Of humble origin, he is a man of unusual drawing power a magnetic personality. His tremendous influence is in this dignified national feeling...
...Quarter Hour between Morton Downey's ballads. The two called Tony's Scrap Books are anthologies of noble thoughts, snatches of homely humor, tributes to beauty, diligence, nature, perseverance, motherhood, home, etc. Some are from Edgar Albert Guest, Dr. Frank Crane, Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Many, of unknown origin, are favorites of listeners who send them in. Here and there are a few lines from Shelley, Browning, Whitman, A. E. Housman. Wons puts them through a microphone in a voice hushed, saponaceous, insinuatingly folksy, with an ingratiating "Are yuh listenin'?" or "Isn't that pretty...
...Article II of the Pact of Paris "the High Contracting Parties agree that the settlement or solution of all disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, shall never be sought except by pacific means". But this must be read in conjunction with the British Note of May 19, 1928, in which Great Britain reserved her freedom of action in "certain regions of the world, the welfare and integrity of which constitute a special and vital interest for our peace and safety"; and the Japanese Note of May 26, 1928, in which it was stated...