Word: soon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Master word-painter that he is, Mr. Roosevelt painted once more the sombre scene of war preparations in Europe, of foreboding peoples, massing armies, cities full of women & children trembling beneath a sky that soon might rain horror. (Ambassador Joe Davies had reported home from Belgium that very morning, "not at all happy about the situation.") Cordell Hull picked up the narrative when his chief was through, but was presently interrupted by leonine Senator Borah. He, too, he said, receives advices from abroad. Moreover, he reads foreign newspapers. He begged to differ with the chiefs of state that...
...unimaginative brother-in-law, stolen the show from the Spanish Generals whom he accompanied on a trip to Rome, become the leading figure of the Falangists. Ardently pro-Nazi, contemptuous of conservatives who see no point in scaring off possible British financial aid, he has boasted that Gibraltar would soon be returned to Spain, was more in evidence at receptions for Count Ciano than was General Franco...
...even Paris, taken at first hand, soon lost its sheen. Henry and his devoted second wife (beauteous Elsie Marie Whelen of Philadelphia) moved again, this time to the idyllic seclusion of an 8th-Century fortress-monastery at La Napoule, on the shores of the Mediterranean. There they set about to create their Never-Never Land. Self-conscious Aristocrat Clews carefully restored the chateau and gardens, stocked the whole place with white birds and animals (to his white pigeons he had tiny flutes fastened, which whistled musically as they flew), worked when he felt like it at sculpture, writing, painting...
...concessions. For parties of 500 or more he cut the admission price to 50?. At the eight large parking lots he slashed the 50?-fee in half. To find out why more customers weren't coming in he planned a questionnaire. It looked as though Grover Whalen would soon have to cut the general admission to 50? a head to get enough People of Today to patronize his World of Tomorrow...
...years out of Princeton, Holmes Moss Alexander was elected to the Maryland Legislature. There he found no cause to doubt "the basic assumption of professional lobbying, that every man has his price or his weakness," soon committed political suicide by saying: "The way we made swag of the taxpayers' money was little short of piracy." His brief experience as a legislator stood him in good stead when he came to write his second novel, American Nabob...