Word: standingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could say that the Government could have done more to try and keep open the way for an honorable and equitable settlement. . . . We shall stand at the bar of history knowing that the responsibility for this terrible catastrophe lies on the shoulders of one man. The German Chancellor has not hesitated to plunge the world into misery in order to serve his own senseless ambitions...
Patients' Progress. All last week, ambulances and lumbering green busses carried convalescents and minor cases out of large London hospitals, drove them home, or off to private houses in the countryside. At least 300,000 hospital beds stand empty, all over Britain, ready to receive victims of the first air raid...
...that the seven syllables of the scale, plus a Spatari-added Bo, may be arranged into no less than 1,000,000 pronounceable combinations. These combinations are used to express not only single words, but complete thoughts. To these combinations at present there is no rhyme nor clue. They stand for what Carlo Spatari believes they ought to stand for. Originally he had thought of making them up so they could be sung, but that idea proved unmelodious...
...form reached the U. S. Because of the record's quaint, beery boopishness, Victor (its U. S. distributor) renamed it the Beer Barrel Polka. The Beer Barrel Polka record not only caught on, it spouted continuously and deliriously from slot machines in every skating rink, juke joint and hamburger stand in the Middle West...
...Said witty Horace Walpole: "If a beggar asks charity, he says: 'Friend, I have no small brilliants about me.'" The cost of living, Walpole added, rose immediately when Clive returned. Not everybody was amused. Investigated by Parliament, Clive defended his greed: "Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation! . . . an opulent city lay at my mercy; its richest bankers bid against each other for my smiles : I walked through vaults which were thrown open to me alone, piled on either hand with gold and jewels!" Charges of corruption against him were dismissed...