Word: prompting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tune of Three Blind Mice became paired with Oh! Susanna as a major overtone of 1936 only by accident. The rhythm of Senator Steiwer's keynote phrase, "Three long years!" automatically evoked the old nursery jingle. Prompt to answer the Republican parody were Democratic versions recalling the twelve long years of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. But Oh! Susanna was not revived by accident. Governor Landon's efficient handlers had searched carefully for a tune to set him to, a tune that could surely be plugged into another Banana Song. After discarding a "We Want Landon" chant...
Malaria: "a few deaths." Dysentery: one epidemic in southern Somaliland, no deaths. Typhus, typhoid fever, relapsing fevers: no deaths. Beriberi and scurvy: no white cases. Cholera and plague: not one case. Chief mortality was, next to Ethiopian bullets, from sunstroke which was eliminated last November by prompt treatment of the first symptoms...
...Director Samuel Barry Locke of the Izaak Walton League screwed up his courage, wrote a letter to Senator Harrison asking point-blank what truth there was in the rumor that he had used his influence to bring the Walley brothers' case to its shocking conclusion. Back came a prompt and courteous reply. "To the extent that I had known these young men and their parents over a great number of years," wrote the Senator, "I did attest to their character. ... If my letter to the District Attorney asking for leniency brought any results, I am very happy...
...restraint and precision marking the report from beginning to end should do much to make the Dean's office realize the high quality of thought underlying it. The features of last year's platform, neglected by the authorities, and stressed again this year, seem to demand especially prompt action. If fresh experience and familiarity with the problems at hand count for anything, it must be said that no one could be more in the know than the Freshmen themselves. Their recommendation should carry corresponding weight when the authorities come to smooth out the out the difficulties of the first year...
...Roman answer was a prompt and emphatic No. Il Duce promised to give France and Britain permission to cooperate in Ethiopia with him but not through an open door...