Word: slough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each by King Edward and Queen Mary to head subscriptions to the King George Memorial Fund for children's play places. June 13 surprise visit with Minister of Labor Ernest Brown ("The Man With the Loudest Voice in the House of Commons") to training centres at Slough and Acton where jobless British men are being taught to become mechanics, painters, hotel waiters and hairdressers...
...prevailed two years ago, the average Freshman was forced to take courses in which he was treated as inconsequential, he had no conception of what the Union Committee was supposed to do, and the almost total absence of guidance through the opening mysteries of Harvard left him in a slough of Despair from which many of his fellows failed to emerge...
...early collaborator, onetime friend and longtime enemy, George Moore. To Lady Gregory, Yeats owed not simply a colleague's loyalty but a more personal debt. When he was a young man of 30 and she a widow of 45 they met, and she rescued him from the slough of "a miserable love affair" by taking him around to peasants' cottages, setting him to collect their folklore. She kept lending him money so that he could write what and how he pleased. Till he was nearly 50, Yeats's writing never brought him in more than...
...Knows What Kings?" John Buchan's useful mission is to redeem the Governor-Generalship from the slough of Canadian distaste into which it sank under his predecessor, the Earl of Bessborough. If Canadians are to go on paying $43,799 a year to an official from overseas whose legal status is "the Person of the King in Canada," then they want to get something for their money. Admirers of the first Baron Tweedsmuir, while generous in their tributes to John Buchan's intellectual gifts, single out his extreme flair for effective flattery, conveyed with canny Scottish tact...
Times were economic and Priest Coughlin's economics were largely of the heart. He needed facts & figures. In Manhattan in 1932 he met George L. LeBlanc and Robert M. Harriss, unorthodox Wall Streeters who believed the Road to Recovery lay through the Vale of Dollar Devaluation and the Slough of Silver Remonetization. The Priest took them for his guides. Now facts & figures cascaded from his tongue in musical billions, and he had a creed: "There is enough of everything in this nation except money...