Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their eldest son last week was seen at night, a slender figure outlined in silhouette against the glowing windows of Sandringham, pacing about with quick movements in a chamber near that of George V. The Queen, indefatigable nurse and splendid woman, snatched only the briefest catnaps in a small bedchamber and was virtually in attendance night & day in the big, air-conditioned room where the King lay barred from drafts by a double circle of high screens around...
...celebration itself, it seems, as its scope develops, to promise a splendid entertainment, and the more this fact becomes known to undergraduates and graduates alike, the less important are the difficulties of activities and habitation...
...either been driven from Tembien Province north and west of Makale or had withdrawn voluntarily. Repeatedly Addis Ababa claimed that Makale had fallen but Italians held it strongly entrenched and Ras Seyoum, Ethiopia's hulking northern commander, was not fool enough to storm it. He had. however, a splendid present for his Emperor who was temporarily mudbound in Dessye-four white Italian prisoners, footsore and ragged but otherwise in a fine state of preservation. Instead of having them mutilated in the oldfangled Ethiopian" way, newfangled Haile Selassie, according to dispatches, "showered his first white prisoners with food...
...took the jury all night to agree. In the morning they found Dr. Spencer not guilty, privately congratulated the Spencers on a splendid job of educating their daughters...
...such is true. I cannot believe it." LL S, v. England. United Press reminded its readers that Motormen Errett Lobban Cord and Horace E. Dodge, also threatened by kidnappers, had taken their children to England without fanfare. Scripps-Howard newspapers distinguished themselves with an editorial from headquarters concerning the splendid kidnapcase record of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation (TIME, Aug. 5). But these calm voices were lost in the cries of shame and outrage with which the mass of U. S. editors compared native law & justice with the British variety. A dozen U. S. Senators called for new laws...