Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cooperate economically with Great Britain and France. "There is nothing that businessmen the world over fear and detest quite so much as war. ... I wish someone would run down the sources of the idea that businessmen are inclined to war. ... In recent years we have seen Japan's aggressions in Asia, and Italy's in Africa, and Hitler's. ... Is there anyone in his right mind who would suggest that these acts of violence . . . have been favored or promoted by business interests...
...city, it was as sentimental as Barrie, it was young love blossoming among the nightclubs. True, Mr. Lowther was getting pretty well along in years to be called, as his lawyer called him, "the kid." True, Eileen and George had been photographed together in nightclubs, and had been seen together for some time, nor was the illusion aided when the Hat Style News Bureau released a picture showing Mr. Lowther modeling one of John-Frederics' new creations...
...women in Washington tried to scotch the notion that Republican women are rich and always wear orchids. Said Mrs. James R. Arneill of Denver, Republican Clubwoman, of a recent rural meeting: "There wasn't a person there who had ever seen an orchid. They had chrysanthemums, though...
...outwardly democratic, thrifty way of living pleased the liberty-loving, saving Dutch. Her palaces were really only big homes. Her Majesty's grocer used the same entrance to the Palace at The Hague as did Her Majesty. The Queen could often be seen by The Hague's inhabitants sewing by a Palace window. There were never unduly elaborate entertainments, there were no expensive State trips for the Royal Family...
Berlin correspondents quickly disposed of wild reports that Friedrich Wilhelm had been "beheaded as a traitor"-he was seen going about the capital in his usual haunts -and it was presently rumored that the Fiihrer might decide to enthrone a likely candidate as Emperor and serve under this figurehead as Chancellor-as II Duce serves under Vittorio Emanuele III. Theory of this shift would be to save the faces of Allied statesmen who may want to deal with the Nazi regime but feel they cannot do so unless some disguise-however transparent-is arranged...