Word: stooped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constitution of 1849, discovered stolen last week? It was never actually adopted, merely drafted with a view to making King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia the first Kaiser of a united Germany. To this proud Prussian King the rest of Germany seemed not worth much. "I will never stoop," said His Majesty, "to pick up a crown out of the gutter...
...opposing the Doctrine will be presented by Captain B. B. Wygant, U. S. N., professor of Naval Science and Tactics, and C. F. Werman, of Brasil, respectively. At the close of these short addresses the discussion will be thrown open to all members of the Council J. J. de Stoop of Belgium, will be chairman for the evening...
Meanwhile Boss Roraback was preoccupied with picking a Republican gubernatorial nominee to oppose Dean Cross. For all the accusations that he selfishly dictates party affairs with an eye cocked on his public utility holdings, he is reputed an honest Boss who enjoys wide respect and who will not stoop to downright crookedness to gain his ends. Last week as Connecticut Republicans were about to convene at Hartford, Boss Roraback settled on Lieut. Governor Ernest Elias Rogers as the man he would make Governor over the opposition of Dean Cross...
...year in office when ugly stories of graft and corruption began to seep from City Hall. A grand jury investigated, found that racketeers were paying City Hall officials for police protection for certain gambling slot-machines. Scrantonians could not understand why Mayor Jermyn, already possessed of ample means, should stoop to racketeer graft...
Even when Pope was an acknowledged great man he could stoop to trickery; once he hid some letters of his in Lord Oxford's study, hoping they would be stolen and published, saying he was afraid they would be. When Lord Oxford guarded them too carefully Pope was annoyed, had a hard time getting them back...