Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Better token of an election-year spring than the balmy air filling the White House office, was the way in which President Roosevelt had begun to stroke the fur of his conservative critics in the right direction. Last week he gave a White House luncheon to the members of Secretary of Commerce Roper's Business Advisory Council. That body of tycoons, now depleted by the resignation of numerous members disgusted with the way the President had ignored their advice for three years, also enjoyed a three-hour table discussion during which they basked in the equinoctial warmth...
...France equally abominable. Nevertheless the "popular Front" of the Radical Socialists, the Socialists and the Communists last week finally steamrollered through the Chamber of Deputies the Franco-Soviet Pact by a triumphant majority of 353-to-164. Among his bandages Jew Léon Blum chuckled as this harsh stroke immediately moved Nazi Adolf Hitler to make the most fawning and friendly gestures he has ever made toward France...
Died. Grand Duchess Feodorovna, 59, wife of Grand Duke Cyril-Vladimirovich. self-proclaimed Emperor of all the Russias; of an apoplectic stroke; in Munich...
Against a Tiger team bidding frantically to nip the Harvard hockey fortunes, the Varsity Pucksters in the Garden last night gained a 3-2 win in a game that might have gone either way by the slightest stroke of chance...
Thence, knighthood in my blood, I to seek a lady to serve. Whereupon comes the Old Woman, but today, very strange, she did look most fair. "Madame, this day I am your Knight; but bid me and with one stroke of my sword I'll wipe out the whole damn scrubbing business!" Whereupon she did throw me down the stairs...