Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Among the few ruling princes officially to attend the Coronations of Georges V & VI was the kinky-haired Sultan of Zanzibar, Seyyid Sir Khalifa bin Harub. All British bandmasters in London were given special editions of the Zanzibar national anthem last week, found that it sounded remarkably like Home Sweet Home. It has no words...
...Pollyanna, but she strongly sympathizes with her hero, who says: "I know something most folks don't seem to know. I know this world is full of the damnedest sweetest people a man would ever hope to meet." Not everybody in Neighbor to the Sky could be called sweet, but both Author Carroll and her hero reach their last-page goal without changing their minds. Like her earlier novels of Maine (As the Earth Turns, A Few Foolish Ones), Author Carroll's latest is as sound and sweet as a good Baldwin apple...
...morning when the old Italian returns, raps on the shutters and lets in the sun; and bunch by bunch takes the truant roses to the fountain to wash their sleepy faces, splashing water also on his own, does he ever guess their night's sweet escapade? I suspect he does, but being a bit of a poet himself says nothing: only this little song: "Roses, Roses, Roses: Fresh, young roses." At least so it seems...
Charles Collins is liked or loved by nearly all the women in the play, and even Mr. Ates assures us that he would be sweet on him if he were a girl, but, although nobody in the audience was likely to take a violent dislike to him, it is doubtful that his extreme popularity extended much beyond the stage. To put it bluntly, he's something of a sissy...
...sweet a game as smart Mr. Davis would have it, Sugar is international. What he may have done for Franklin Roosevelt toward saving Democracy remained in the jackpot, but last week Special Ambassador Davis dealt the cards in the game of Sugar without anyone leaving the table, showed that even in 1937 22 nations could reach an economic agreement: a production-control scheme...