Word: se
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dane" was "the greatest of the Allied War-time spies." A marine engineer, traveling in Germany for the Danish shipbuilding industry, the Dane decided to sell his information to the British Se cret Service. Possessed of a phenomenal memory, he carried in his head the me chanical details of new German submarines and Zeppelins. When he first reported on guns big enough to bombard Paris from a distance of 75 miles, nobody would believe him. He made a fortune out of his spying, retired after the War to his native village where he is now a wealthy, highly-respected citizen...
...while King George opened "Queens-way," world's largest underwater tunnel at Liverpool, could scarcely hear the royal words because of a thundering airplane advertising Crawford's Cream Crackers overhead. Last week Their Majesties had the satisfaction of knowing that $25,000 has been paid to expiate this lèse-majeste. To Liverpool papers William Crawford & Sons, Ltd. sent under no compulsion, except the mighty smash of public opinion, the following abject letter...
...Chancellor wandered off into strange digressions: "Among countless documents I have been obliged to read this week I found the diary of a man who in 1918 was thrown into a course of resistance to the laws and now lives in a world wherein law per se seems to incite to resistance. A moving document! . . . A glimpse at the mentality of humans who, without knowing it, have found their last confession of faith in Nihilism...
...Dover Road, England; the master of the house spends his life trying to aid the oppressed and the love lorn. American ideas of the English are surprisingly amusing, and at times highly annoying, but any breath of an English accent is as nectar to the American public and per se assures the picture of success, as is borne out by the reactions of the audience in the present case. So also any joke which the audience does not catch, goes as an extremely subtle Anglicism and draws hearty guffaws...
...Eatonville he led a posse which captured a band of bank robbers. Dr. Bridge lined up the bandits, advised them to find some new line of work. Robbery, he said, was poor business. The American Medical Association, stanch foe of socialized medicine, does not consider contract practice unethical per se. Two years ago its Bureau of Medical Economics reviewed Dr. Bridge's activities in the A. M. A. Journal, admitted that such schemes give some patients better care than they could otherwise get. But, said the Bureau, they also lead to solicitation, underbidding, inferior service. They squeeze out individual...