Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thence back to the Tower and very glad to open some letters and see I am taken in at Oxford, October next. Yet I have not heard much of Wadham College save it looks a pretty ruin with fresh gardens. This is a virtue I like very much for it will be fine in the Spring, and did not many a rich philosophy begin in a garden? By and by comes ___ and, all a bubble, brings me his album; a mighty fine job it is, yet, bless my soul, for an address book ten dollars 'is very steep...
...What are we to do? We cannot save a drop of blood in Ethiopia. We cannot restore the old Government. We would merely extend the conflict. We would fight not for peace but for revenge...
...William Randolph Hearst by Airs. Fremont Older. It denounces the other current biographies of this great American as stink-bombs. They are petty attempts of persons in the pay of Moscow to discredit the person who has done most to help rid the country of the red menace, to save the country's honor, to deliver the suffering Cubans from the yoke of Spain, to make the United States safe for democracy, to keep 'America for the Americans...
...Italy's conquest of Ethiopia. Even the Parliamentary innocents who revolted so violently last December against the Hoare-Laval Deal to end the Ethiopian War were convinced that there was just one thing for the British lion to do: swallow its pride, lick its wounds and try to save what was left of the League of Nations. In secret recommendations to the Foreign Office, the committee added this warning: ''The Government must move with the utmost caution...
...Holy Name Journal appeared a blast at Mrs. Thomas Norvel Hepburn, birth control advocate and mother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn. What provoked this sheet to impolite language was Mrs. Hepburn's recent statement that "birth control makes it possible for young people to get married and save up and have children when they really want them. ... It makes parentage a glorious fulfillment of their hopes instead of an accident of Nature...