Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...added: "I hear said, 'But look what Crump has done for us. All the nice parks.' Other cities and states have parks without the help of Crump and the poll tax. Other states have fine schools where a splendid education is offered without a politician being mentioned. . . . Missouri rid itself of Pendergast. Why can't the same thing be done here...
...beauty salons, four furniture stores, taxis, even such accouterments of civilization as a nightclub and a stock exchange (one recent day's business: 27,000 shares, representing $50,000). Val D'Or's drug stores sell barrels of pop. Miners get ice cream sodas at the Splendid Sweets...
Wrote Secretary of State James Byrnes: "By [the democratic] process you have been cleared. I am happy to approve the recommendation that you be returned to active duty. ... I predict for you a continuance of a splendid record...
...look upon the result," he concluded blandly, "as comfortable, but not splendid . . . and from the further shore I bid adieu to all who have cared to read any among the many words that I have written...
...will be a fine world when we all allow the other fellow to have his own mannerisms and when we observe his differences from ourselves with interest instead of with resentment. The war has certainly proved beyond question that there are splendid qualities in both English and Americans and that those qualities extend themselves in both countries throughout all types, kinds and classifications of people...