Word: prospers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martyrs prosper in Irish air. Suddenly the cries were "Up O'Duffy!" "Down with the Broy Harriers!", the latter a play on the name of Dublin Police Chief Broy and a famed Irish pack of fast but craven rabbit hounds. De Valera men countered with tales of the soft life O'Duffy would lead in the Arbour Hill Prison outside Dublin. The Arbour Hill Prison under Minister of Defence Frank Aiken has won the name of "Aiken's Grand Hotel." The General resided in the "Grand barely 48 hours. His lawyers apparently agreed with the State...
...made yesterday by the French Talking Films Committee that the first in a series of six or seven films will be shown on Thursday and Friday, November 23 and 24, at the Institute of Geographical Exploration. The production to be shown is "Colomba," taken from the book written by Prosper Merimee, and will be the American premiere of the film. Mrs. E. K. Rand, president of the French film committee, it spending the winter in France, and sent the picture to Harvard...
...estate went to Lady Fearless and her small son Nigel, and took possession himself. Conveniently, Lady Fearless was drowned as her husband had been. Young Nigel, whisked away by an itinerant tinker, was brought up in ignorance of his birth. His new position enabled Stephen to marry well, prosper mightily in business. But he was haunted by his memories, superstitiously felt that his luck was too good to last. At length he fled secretly to the Malay archipelago. There he met an Englishwoman with a past as plaguey as his own and shared an island with her for three idyllic...
...Washington school of thought that the U. S. can prosper only if the whole world does is headed by Secretary of State Hull. At London he is being given his innings to prove his point. If he does not succeed, the economic isolationists, captained by Assistant Secretary of State Moley, will go to bat. Their objective will be a national economy of self-contain-ment. At hand for their innings they will have plenty of brand new heavy bats-the farm relief act, inflation, tariff uppings, embargoes...
...America is realizing with us that under the interwoven economic system of modern times, no country can prosper in isolation. Suffering is a very hard school, but if our present sufferings have the result of bringing home to us all the vice of economic nationalism, then this great depression may well pave the way for future permanent prosperity...