Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their sentiment was the stronger because they felt that Cutting had died under persecution. In 1932 Bronson Cutting and Franklin Roosevelt virtually fell into each other's political arms. There was every reason for their doing so; they had in common Groton, Harvard, a back-ground of wealth and a love for forgotten men. By 1934 Franklin Roosevelt was at Bronson Cutting's political throat. The break between them was not spectacular. The beginning of it, though neither of them recognized it. took place before the Roosevelt inauguration when Senator Cutting, independent as always, declined...
...Roxby. Both are married-Hervey to a no-account weakling who has failed her again & again, is now idling at Oxford; Nicholas to a spoiled wife from whom he is separated. Like many of his generation. Nicholas has been nearly used up by the War; Hervey is much the stronger of the two. While Nicholas sinks what is left of his money and energy in an antique-furniture shop. Hervey plods along at her jobs of literary secretary and novelist, somehow finds time and heart as well to be mother, friend and lover. The book ends with the preliminary divorce...
...beheading last week came when Nazi No. 2 was awakened with a brass band serenade, for it was his wedding morn. As every German knows, Nazi No. 1 eschews pomp, never wears anything more pretentious than a corporal's uniform, eats no meat, never smokes, drinks nothing stronger than beer. Contrariwise No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring crowds every waking moment with pomp and circumstance, changes from gorgeous to still more gorgeous uniforms half a dozen times a day, stuffs his fat but mighty-muscled frame with much raw meat, tosses off champagne with gusto and indulges...
...dress. He is good in his criticism of his associates, and, by implications, of himself, too, so that the reader is not unduly sanguine who expects him to fulfill the promise of this present volume in later years when Time shall have made Mr. Day Lewis an even stronger poet than...
Princeton, N. J., April 19--Behind two-hit pitching by Bill Lincoln, the Harvard Varsity nine took Princeton into camp 2-0 here this afternoon, to gain a stronger hold on the upper berth of the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League...