Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Founded in Paris after the Armistice as a patriotic non-political body, it was in the process of becoming the greatest Treasury raiding machine the nation had ever seen." This because we have won a measure of economic justice from your masters...
...Federal tax on it would probably have been upwards of three times as much, without making allowance for the fact that Macy stock has increased over 10% in value during the past year.* Last week when the terms of Jesse Straus's will were made known, it was seen that he had given troubled thought to estate taxes. His will, dated May 9, 1933, when the New Deal was only two months old, left 17,100 shares of Macy stock (worth today $855,000) to 18 philanthropic and educational institutions. Beneficiaries included the Federation for the Support of Jewish...
...greatest difficulty in getting her away from the window of an art dealer's shop. She remains there with her nose glued to the glass rather like a child looking into a tuck shop." ¶To the surprise of Welshmen, the dragon passant, emblematic beast of Wales, was seen to have vanished last week along with the three "Prince of Wales" feathers from the arms of the Duchy of Cornwall, as new emblems designed by the College of Arms were submitted for the approval of King Edward...
...past fifteen years of diplomatic history have watched the decline of "collective security" and seen a tendency towards bilateral pacts, which have arisen to fill the gap. The allies, headed by France, have tried to perpetuate the victory of 1918 through the moribund League with its security and defense for the victors, and by these means have attempted to freeze the status quo, with disastrous results. Time is slowly proving to a reluctant Europe that the "status quo" can not be embalmed in such fashion, and that an uneven balance of power can never be maintained through multi-lateral pacts...
...proboscis, "and do you know what they do? Why they just subcirbe to college magazines and cut out the jokes. It's colossal, that's what it is, colossal!" Although the star of Cole Porter's latest show admitted he had read lots of these he had never seen a copy of the "Lampoon", but this was explained when he said that he only read the funny ones...