Word: restful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's ex-Alderman Fairchild let go his red herring. "Democracy," as he is well aware, is that ideal government defined by Lincoln as "of the people, by the people, for the people." By "the democracies" TIME, in common with the rest of the world's press, refers to the U. S., England and France - the democratic countries which are of No. 1 military importance...
...After the stroke that paralyzed Woodrow Wilson's left side, ended his nationwide speaking tour for the League, left him an invalid for the rest of his life, he was visited by a Senate subcommittee, ostensibly to discuss a Mexican treaty, actually to decide on his fitness to continue in office. Leader was New Mexico's Albert B. ("Teapot Dome") Fall, who entered the room "looking like a regular Uriah Heap, 'washing his hands with invisible soap in imperceptible water.' " Said Senator Fall: "Well, Mr. President, we have all been praying for you." Said the President...
...process of my research I found a great many conflicting opinions from Mencken's violent denunciation to hero-worshipping biographies like Billy Herndon's. The most important point of controversy always seemed to rest on the real force behind Lincoln's agitation for abolition...
...titles last week, the final of the league season. McGill repulsed Dartmouth, the last remaining American threat, for its ninth victory in ten games. McConnell added two points on assists to his total in that contest to finish with 43 points and complete his work of spread-eagling the rest of the league's offensive artists...
...fuss, Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow finally agreed in Great Britain's High Court of Justice to give her husband, Count Court, "custody, care and superintendence" of their 2½year-old son, Lance until he is 21. Countess Babs will entertain her son on periodic visits. The rest of the time, she will have...