Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goods. To the White House last week went the leaders of the Congress to deliver the goods-the Neutrality Act that Franklin Roosevelt wanted-and see him scrawl his bold signature...
...bulk of the girls are youngsters; of course I get fearfully tired of spending hours with the very young but I daresay they feel just the same about the aged. [N.B.-The writer is over 40.] I enjoyed my first leave tremendously and went into the country to see Mother. Lots of our friends are drifting back to town through sheer boredom. I fancy I shall be mentally deficient when the war does end. This sort of pottering about is quite destructive to the brain and one can't settle to anything never knowing when one will be called...
...overlords" of Milwaukee. That is not true even in the very slightest degree! And if ever it becomes necessary for me to prove it I can do so beyond any doubt. Of course, many merchants, manufacturers, bankers and other businessmen bought tickets in blocks of fives (the series) to see the plays I produced in Milwaukee. But so did many doctors, lawyers, bookkeepers and stenographers. But neither the series, nor To the End of Time was sponsored or financed in the manner your article described...
...Shut up, son," I said. "Don't you see you are committing the very sin of quick generalisation that is incensing you so much just now? Beware, as injustice always begets injustice...
Calm to the point of boredom was the ceremony of the signing. It was 12:04 p.m. when President Roosevelt, grasping an inexpensive black & tan fountain pen, affixed his signature to the joint resolution. Next minute, using another pen just like it, he signed proclamations defining combat areas (see p. 16), and banning belligerent submarines from U. S. ports. To Senator Key Pittman went one pen. To Representative Sol Bloom went another. A third-an expensive one that memento-loving Sol Bloom had bought just for the ceremony-the President decided to keep for himself. Off-stage a newsman...