Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tried to debauch the fair name of Florida seems to be the Associated Press. Insidiously, craftily--like Californian spies--it took advantage of the coma which was Florida's until she had dug herself out, and blatantly shrieked a tale of ruin. With foul intent the newspapers urged relief funds and salvage societies. But Florida refused to be quarantined. Life is still Olympian at Coral Gables. The Marx brothers can still sell lots...
...whole, I think the writer was misinformed. I have been in charge of relief work in Delray and we have cared for about 200 refugees from Hollywood, and have been brought in close contact with the situation. Conditions generally are not nearly so bad as your article would lead one to believe...
...attempt to force Marshal Pilsudski into the open and voted what amounted to "no confidence" in the Cabinet 260 to 92. The Bartel Cabinet thereupon resigned. Marshal Pilsudski, to the satisfaction of many a Pole, countered by assuming the Premiership himself. Significance. The new Cabinet was generally hailed with relief by the press of Warsaw as "a strong Left Democratic Government . . . the strongest Ministry assembled in Poland since the re-establishment of Polish independence [1918].- This enthusiasm was traceable in some degree to the satisfaction of wealthy newspaper owners at seeing in the Cabinet these potent monarchist landowners MM. Nieza...
Hour after hour the hard clay road bastinadoed their blistering feet. Dutch maids and matrons skimmed by on bicycles-made marching seem the harder. As the blazing unclouded sun poured down, scowls gathered and perspiration trickled slimily upon hot flesh. Only one vision of relief loomed. BEER! At Assen there would be beer...
...last Mrs. Wilson was driven to the railway station, there to entrain for Vienna. Upon the station wall a brooding portrait is cut in high relief. The long ascetic face, the level academic brow, the expression care-worn but purposeful, are familiar to Mrs. Wilson. Pausing for a moment she commended the likeness...