Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that rises steeply from the James River at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Last week the venerable legislator, ill for the past month, propped himself up on a pillow in a Washington hotel bedroom, and with all the ardor and oratory of the Old South said his say about peace, war, Adolf Hitler, Congress, cash-&-carry, and the U. S. state of mind...
...first place, the conscription firecracker did not go off. Maurice Duplessis seemed to forget that France was at war as well as Britain. His constituency did not forget that Ottawa, not Quebec, has the final say on conscription, and so the voting would be mere polling of opinion. His Liberal opponents opposed conscription as violently as he did, anyhow. And conscription did not have a strong enough stink to kill the odor of red herring...
...regalia of a brilliant diplomatic party last week adorned the bodies of virtually all of France's Cabinet Ministers, most of her home diplomats, many of her social leaders, in one of the gloomiest caverns in Paris-the Gare du Nord. The notables had gathered to say good-by to a good friend, wit, gourmet, an artisan of tact, a monocle-bearing, well-dressed Briton, Sir Eric Phipps, 64, retiring from the British diplomatic service after two years as Ambassador to France and after 30-odd in the service of his Kings...
...Crown Prince, now that he is of age. will have a separate palace of his own for the first time, may possibly step out, but most people who know him well say that Senator Mihai is serious-minded to the point of boredom...
...fabulous Willie Heston (1901-04), whose spraddle legs once scored no touchdowns-wriggled in among the 54,000 football fans in Michigan's magnificent stadium. They saw the vaunted Michigan backs-(Harmon, Kromer, Westfall and Evashevski)-trot onto the field and in less time than it takes to say Evashevski make sausage meat of a not-so-bad Yale team that had beaten Army and Columbia earlier in the season...