Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearst ranch in San Simeon, Calif. (TIME, Sept. 30, 1929). There he dined nightly with the Anglophobe, addressed him gently of England, her geniality, her pacifism, her friendliness to the U. S. When Mr. Churchill felt that the Anglophobe was at last quieted, he journeyed to Manhattan, ate a slice of Laborite Ramsay MacDonald's birthday cake, took ship for home. The world took scant heed...
...witnessed the bombing at all, so muddled were truth and falsehood in his clouded brain. He charged that the San Francisco police had coached him to identify Mooney and Billings as the bombers, that Charles M. Fickert, the prosecuting attorney, had influenced his testimony, had promised him a "large slice" of the $17,500 reward in return for damning evidence...
...Mooney in the city prison, that District Attorney Fickert had put "a whole pack of lies" into his head which he repeated to the trial juries. Said he: "Fickert told me if I would stand by the identification of Billings and Mooney I'd get the biggest slice of the reward." Asked Justice Preston mockingly: "You swore this at the time God was judging you to be a liar" MacDonald only wept...
Firmly set against any Habsburg restoration in Hungary or elsewhere is Czechoslovakia. Not only is Czechoslovakia a bounden ally of the French, and thereby committed against the Habsburgs, but before the War a big slice of Czechoslovakia was Bohemia, one of the most obstreperous and least loyal sections of the loose-jointed; Austro-Hungarian Empire. Indomitable Zita has not given up all hope of winning back Austria. The best she can expect from Czechoslovakia is a sort of benevolent neutrality. Hence her League of Prayer and the proposed beatification of her husband.* For months Royalist agents and pro-Habsburg priests...
...London in July 1891, and bought Angel-Cake in a shop where American cake and chewing gum were sold. With each slice of Angel-Cake one received the receipt for making...