Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan was slavering at China's gates last week, threatening to swallow both Peiping (once Peking) and the great North China port of Tientsin. Meanwhile Charles James Fox, president of Tientsin's American Chamber of Commerce, was saying: "In my opinion, the Roosevelt Government's silver policy is harming American interests in China more than are the Japanese...
...money for which men and women will sell out their scruples. However, I heard some of our boys discussing this article, and it developed that one of them makes a practice of eating the grubs of Japanese beetles. His technique is to nip them to kill them, then swallow them without chewing them, so that he cannot describe their taste. He will eat worms for a larger consideration...
...Deputies, was about to meet. Every Frenchman knew what they were faced with: an immediate budget deficit of ten billion francs ($658,300,000), that was causing the French franc, keystone of Europe's gold bloc, to tremble on the verge of devaluation. Either the Chamber must swallow its pride, vote extraordinary powers to the Flandin ministry or else the Cabinet must fall and France head into another inflation like that...
...like a Northerner to raise, even rhetorically. Such a book as Stars Fell on Alabama, though very mildly critical of the South, seemed to many an Alabamian a poor return for Southern hospitality. But last month Alabama and the whole South had a much more bitter pill to swallow, this time coated with no Yankee sugar. Clarence Cason was a native son, able head of the department of journalism at the University of Alabama, and respectfully regarded by his fellow-Tuscaloosans. In 90° in the Shade he drew a biting "psychograph" of the South. Even unreconstructed Southerners admitted that...
Which Capitalist European Power would be the first to swallow its hatred of Communism and make a military ally of Soviet Russia? The Russians frankly needed and wanted a European friend to protect their back in case they ever fight Japan in the East. Germany and Poland, however, were too close to the Bolshevik Menace to see the opportunity. Three weeks ago France hesitantly took the plunge, signed a Treaty of Mutual Assistance with Russia (TIME, May 13). Last week Pierre Laval, Foreign Minister of France, arrived in Moscow to see what kind of a bargain...