Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each other's political arms. There was every reason for their doing so; they had in common Groton, Harvard, a back-ground of wealth and a love for forgotten men. By 1934 Franklin Roosevelt was at Bronson Cutting's political throat. The break between them was not spectacular. The beginning of it, though neither of them recognized it. took place before the Roosevelt inauguration when Senator Cutting, independent as always, declined the job of Secretary of the Interior offered him in return for his support of Roosevelt...
...Harry Byrd was a freshman in the Virginia State Senate. He did not smoke and he did not drink (to this day his good natured brother Tom generally takes two drinks when they are passed, saying, "this is mine and this is Harry's") and he was not spectacular. But the time came when he led the Democrats in the State Senate and soundly trounced C. Bascom Slemp's Republicans. Finally in 1925, he was elected Governor and gave Virginia a new deal-of the kind he had given his father's newspaper...
Since the two countries are worlds apart in spirit and institutions, the pact was signed and sealed last week not at one more Conference but at the musty but sumptuous old Quai d'Orsay. A Red with the same surname as Catherine the Great's spectacular paramour, Soviet Ambassador to France Comrade Vladimir Potemkin, signed with earthy, peasant-born black nostriled French Foreign Minister Laval a formal Treaty of Mutual Assistance important in itself and epochal in its implications...
German attempts at counter-propaganda mostly misfired. Most spectacular were the visits of the Dentschland, commercial submarine, to Baltimore, and the U-53 (which sank nine merchantmen off Nantucket) to Newport. As sporting events, both these voyages appealed to the U. S. imagination, but in retrospect they soon seemed a threat...
...Varsity eight gave the Tiger crew, hailed as a speedy bunch of watermen after their spectacular victory over the Pennacs, all it could handle in the mile and three quarters race while the Jayvees and Freshmen put up sterling performances on the same course to blank both Tech and Princeton...