Word: signs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year Mrs. Roosevelt may have crossed her fingers. Thus far there has been no sign of chickenpox or tonsillitis (Sister & Buzzie Dall, 1932), sinus (Franklin Jr. 1936) or other ill hap. On hand will be still-ailing Harry Hopkins, Secretary of Commerce, and his bright-eyed, motherless daughter, Diana, 7. And last to open her stocking-by custom-will be the President's 85-year-old mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, still the belle of the Hudson Valley...
...hrer, the Rome-Berlin Axis is not going to be extended to Moscow. This was a plain intimation that Italy thought Germany had run out on the Anti-Comintern Pact. Moreover, the Italians were warned of the Russian-German treaty only two days before it was signed. "At 10 o'clock in the evening of Aug. 21, Ribbentrop telephoned me that he was going to Moscow on the 23rd to sign the pact of non-aggression between the Reich and the U. S. S. R.," recounted Count Ciano...
...well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children...
...rather like that of a family party where the younger girls are in tearing spirits and occasionally do the splits or snatch a cigar from uncle's mouth. Everyone is out to be as naughty as possible, but it is a very schoolboyish kind of naughtiness without much sign of the sinister or the vicious...
...sign the Alliance with England and France, Germany will have to ... seek a modus vivendi with the Western Powers which would be later very dangerous for us. If on the contrary we accept the Reich's offer of collaboration, the latter will not hesitate to crush Poland; England and France will be thereupon drawn fatally into war. There will result a thorough destruction of Western Europe, and remaining outside the conflict we can advantageously await our hour...