Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...method of keeping the boxers in trim. Boxing is a major sport, the major sport, at Virginia; and 6000 people are expected to troop in Saturday night to read in their elaborate programs the biographies of the Harvard boxers, hoping they are about to witness southern honor gaining a sweet revenge...
Righteous Argument As Franklin Roosevelt unfolded his plan, sweet reasonableness was its disarming keynote. He proposed no alteration of the Constitution, no limitation of the powers of the courts. He unveiled a foundation of ample precedent, buttressed by arguments often made in the past by eminent jurists, for improvement of the judicial system. Only a month ago he had proposed a plan to reorganize the executive branch (TIME, Jan. 25). Now he merely proposed to rejuvenate the judicial branch...
...cemented broken beer bottles, the Oxford girls and their black stockings and bicycles, the cold water in the hot showers, the Englishman's nonchalance and the bulls in Christ Church meadow. Certainly there are but few better places in the world where thinking is so high, romance so sweet, history so well preserved and living conditions so primitive. The English are Greek in spirit and English only in manners; and a happier, friendly people once their social bristles are accepted-- never have...
...Sweet as they are, earnings are not the only thing the roads have to show for their five years' ordeal. For, heading out of the Depression in 1937, the U. S. railroads find themselves today not so rich in materials as they were in 1929, but far richer in resource and morale. A ringside spectator at 17 years of railroad history is Joseph Bartlett Eastman, a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission since 1919, and the New Deal's erstwhile Coordinator of Transportation. Skeptical about private ownership as he is, nevertheless he told the Boston Chamber of Commerce...
...Icelandic soul. Then to my attic to nibble on Liederkranz, after which L-, Q-, P-, Shorty, and a St. Bernard named Herman rushed in and fairly dragged me away. (Gad, but am I popular!) Off to a Lithuanian picnic and feasted on pine-smelling borsch and gemutlichkeit gefuilte fish. Sweet Lithuania, haven for the true liberal! Apple-cheeked maidens dancing the traditional sklav-sklav and reminding me of my Love. Later to the attic, whisked my tails from under the mattress, and off to the Somerset to meet Sadie Saltenglotz. These Boston debs! Later wandered in the moonlight...