Word: renew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dependence upon Him for His bounties, and productive of a treasure of pleasing reminiscences, connected with the joys of our childhood, and the maturer, but more exquisite delights of our own hearth-sides, where parents and children, brothers and sisters, and all the loved objects of the family group renew, at the festive board, the vows of affection, exchange kind greetings, and revive recollections of the past to enliven the present; while the pilgrimage of life is brightened and sweetened by innocent amusements and healthful recreations, and a sense of obligation to the Giver of all good is implanted more...
...heads of the three Scandinavian States and Finland and Luxembourg, had offered their "good offices" in mediating Europe's crisis. Five days later the offer was repeated. Since these appeals, then politely rejected, presumably still stood open, observers wondered why the two practical sovereigns found it necessary to renew their peace effort at a time when there was less likelihood than ever before that the belligerents would lay down their arms. Moreover, this new appeal contained no formula for calling off hostilities...
...Rome this sentimental journeyman reported: "Government officials are favorably inclined." Elsewhere, he intimated, nations had received him most cordially. But so far he had no signatures on his pocketful of dotted lines. That was serious. For if a majority of this year's 58 foreign exhibitors fail to renew their leases, the 1940 Fair will have to cope with a lot of blank spots where the handsome foreign pavilions now stand...
First to snap up the bargain rates for Fair-owned buildings was big Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. General Electric, Ford, General Motors, Firestone, Carrier Corp. also signed up. By week's end Florida was the only State to renew her contract; Ohio the only one (of 33) to say she wouldn...
...actors. Greeted there as a hero, surrounded by old women who were once his lovers, St. Clair also meets embittered Marny (Victor Francen), who has been obsessed for years by the suspicion that his wife killed herself after St. Clair tired of her. When St. Clair attempts to renew his youth by captivating a simple-minded young barmaid (Madeleine Ozeray), Marny sees history repeating itself, intervenes. As the two ancient rivals match wits, the home passes through a financial crisis, a strike against short rations led by wrinkled, wry Cabris-sade (Michel Simon), who spent a lifetime in the theatre...