Word: plum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nations has done all that was expected of it--nothing. The enraged Flandin of a week ago has cooled down under the soothing effects of Eden's dilatory tactics and has even been induced to reach into the international grab-bag to pull out whatever he can. His plum consists of the proposal that a demilitarized zone policed by British and Italian troops be set up in the Rhineland, an offer which M. Flandin must know as well as Eden that the Hitler government will in no way accept...
...object like an elongated plum, to the end of which is attached an iron crown...
Since M. Laval is of the Moderate Right, the Socialists & Communists exulted. Cried Socialist Leader Leon Blum: "We shook the Radical Socialist plum tree until Laval fell...
Socialist leader Leon Blum joyfully said that the Left Wingers "shook the Radical plum tree until Laval fell out." In judging the conduct of Laval during past months it appears that he never was really up in that plum tree. He was merely hiding behind...
...these who found it expedient to remain in Cambridge. Christmas Dinner was an imposing meal, a tribute to the ingenuity of Roy Westcott and his minione. Starting with cream of mushroom goup, the meal ran the traditional gamut of turkey and ended gloriously with mince pic, pumpkin pic, plum pudding with hard sauce, vanilla ice cream with fudge sauce, small cakes, apples, oranges, grapes, mixed noig, cluster raisins, and cheepe and crackers...