Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their property and religion, an assurance of equal rights . . . and what the British Army would most readily accord a brave and enduring foe-all the honors of war." Responsibilities of Empire he considered great; if nations under the British Crown could be healthy and happy "the cause of the poor and the weak all over the world will have been sustained: everywhere small peoples will have more room to breathe; and everywhere great empires will be encouraged by our example to step forward into the sunshine of a more gentle and a more generous...
...Mussolini, less than any other major head-of-State in Europe, could not afford big war right now. Italy is poor. Gasoline went to 95? per gallon last week. Coffee above $1 per Ib. - i. e., did not exist. Italy is peace-willing (General Italo Balbo spoke for other Army men when he urged that Il Duce try to carry out President Roosevelt's peace suggestion). And Italy was scared...
...clutches of a slick capitalist and the workers of his home town out of the clutches of an equally slick radical, and wind up with his party's nomination (tantamount to election) to the U. S. Senate. In vanquishing un-American influences from rich and poor, Lem has to knock a few heads together, but mainly he relies on talk. If Abe Lincoln had been half the man Lem Schofield was, it is plain that the U. S. would never have fought a Civil...
...pale the old chap went, that poor old Mr. John, When sentries stood before the British Concession! He ground what teeth he had, and stripped right to the skin; That wasn't nice for him-ha! ha! in Tientsin...
...whole Empire is naked-nude, like poor old honest John: He ceased to be a mighty dude, for he had nothing on. Both big and little watched aglow this novel kind of nudist show; What John exposed, to his distress, was not alone his nakedness...