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Word: stilles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coming in the eyes of Hoosiers. To us he was a conquering hero come home, king for a day, featured profusely by the three city papers (two of which are Republican). And why not-on a hot day when there's nothing else to talk about ! Synthetic ballyhoo still doesn't blind Indiana's majority to the shallowness of our self-satisfied Adonis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...Senators to agree that full responsibility for failure to change the Neutrality law now should rest with them, and that Neutrality shall be the first order of business on their calendar next session. Taking pen & paper, he scratched off a statement reiterating that he and the Secretary of State still maintain that failure to act now weakened U. S. influence in preserving peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Taking It | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Three hours had passed. At the end of it, Franklin Roosevelt's chin was still out and he talked lightly with his departing guests about other matters. Secretary Hull made no effort to hide his disappointment as he left. Vice President Garner left grinning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Taking It | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...scheme that then seemed grandiose and daring beyond any dim 1937 Republican dreams gradually took shape under the still-sandy thatch that belies McNary's age (65). When all but a few bumbling die-hards believed the President would have his way about the Court, McNary coolly visioned not only the bill's strangulation but the wide-open splitting of the Democratic Party and the eventual use of the conservative Democratic wing by Republican strategists in a practical coalition which could not merely harass Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal but stop it cold. The conception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Revolt in the Desert | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...shell cracked only once-when her son's plane was shot down in the War. Old age found her blunt-speaking, crotchety as ever, her only weakness dreaming of foreign ports and cities she had known as a girl. Death, when at long last it came, found her still unreconciled with life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bittersweet | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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