Word: selfe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...position toward its possessions is that of a parent with lusty, growing children, who must be supported until they become self-sustaining. For the past half-century Puerto Rico has been a costly child, its upkeep running into millions annually ... To reduce this drain on U.S. resources, Congress has tried to encourage American industry and investment in the island through tax exemptions and other inducements . . . GEORGE R. MERCADER Beverly Hills, Calif...
Courage in a Cage. With such unwonted ferocity on the march north of the Channel, it was perhaps a bad week for self-styled Animal Trainer Karl Steinmann to prove his courage in Paris. He had come to France from Vienna last June and signed up as a dompteur or wild animal tamer with Pinder's traveling circus. He was fired after his first appearance, when an elephant which he was supposed to lead around the ring refused to budge. Steinmann took his problem to a Paris lawyer who in turn took it to court. "To say," roared Lawyer...
Alarmed at statistics that showed one divorce for every eight marriages in Britain* last year, the courageous speaker, Britain's Princess Elizabeth, went further; than either royal personages or most 23-year-olds are wont to do in speaking her mind. "We live in an age of growing self-indulgence," she warned her Mothers' Union audience, which included a turbaned matron from Lagos, "of hardening materialism and of falling moral standards . . . When we see around us the havoc which has been wrought, above all among the children, by the breakup of homes, we can have no doubt that...
...Eiffel Tower. Last week in Her Majesty Queen Mary (Sampson Low, London; 125. 6d.), Press Association's Buckingham Palace Correspondent Louis Wulff provided a semi-official but nonetheless intimate glimpse of Mary during her years as Queen Mother. It reveals a Victorian as stern as she is self-disciplined, a queen who takes herself seriously...
Curley, personally, gives the appearance of the utmost refinement. In his younger days, he was a very handsome man; today, at 75 he is jowled but in his face remains most of the vigor of his younger self. You stop and think if the stories about his being on his deathbed when he was in jail at Danbury in 1946 have any truth in them. A capable conversationalist, Curley can talk on almost any subject with the facility of a specialist, the gift of a retentive memory stands by him well. From a small amount of reading, he is able...