Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League to dance. His first idea was that she alone should soothe howling China and spank obstreperous Japan. In his note to Geneva fortnight ago Stag Stimson firmly put his white-gloved hands behind his back with these words: "It is most desirable that the League in no way relax its vigilance and in no way fail to assert all the pressure and authority within its competence toward regulating the action of China and Japan" (TIME...
Because Congress does not meet until Dec. 7 and debt suspension must be voted by Dec. 15, the next international pay day, President Hoover was pressed to relax his opposition to a special session. Utah's Senator Reed Smoot estimated it would take six weeks to legislate on this matter. Mississippi's Democratic Senator Pat Harrison, so actively in favor of the Hoover plan that he called for a political armistice during its consideration, told the President the House would be tied up for weeks selecting a Speaker, advised him to call Congress into special session in late...
With the blessing of Wall Street and all other markets upon him, President Hoover motored to his Rapidan camp to relax. Mrs. Hoover had preceded him there. Their guests included George Woodward Wickersham, Bruce Barton, Newbold Noyes (Washington editor), Edgar Rickard (old business friend). Behind him the President left a world still echoing with his praise. Happiest of cities was Berlin. Its 6 ft. 6 in. Ober-burgermeister, Heinrich ("Uncle Sam") Sahm, went before the International Convention of Building Trades fervently to declare: "I propose President Hoover for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is a candidate without competition. His action...
...wisdom last week the Supreme Pontiff gave bishops throughout Italy "discretion"' to relax his ban in their dioceses. Instantly Antonio Cardinal Ascalesi, Archbishop of Naples, approved processions in honor of St. Anthony. Neapolitans, fit to burst for the past two weeks with suppressed eagerness to parade, were filled with...
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse has been doing it for years, but it is still good. You may think you are completely hardened to this kind of bubbling dialog, practically immune to any further farcical Wodehouse situations; but yours is indeed a stout pair of lips if they do not relax often, part sometimes in a delighted yell as you read this latest Wodehouse issue...