Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article on Gunga Din, TIME, Feb. 6, I take exception to your statement ". . . nor affront the intelligence of their seniors."* I think it is an insult to the intelligence of the moviegoer to expect him to believe among other things...
Arising pale but well from his bed of flu, Franklin Roosevelt last week headed south for his first vacation since Thanksgiving. His favorite cruiser Houston awaited him off Key West to take him out to the navy's game of defending the Panama Canal (TIME, Feb. 20). The Presidential fishing rods were already on the Houston. Lest citizens suppose he was a frivolous President, Mr. Roosevelt packed into his last two days ashore several statements calculated to keep the country thinking well...
...Sick almost unto death last week with intestinal flu and stomach hemorrhages was popular, convivial, emaciated Presidential Secretary Marvin ("Mac") McIntyre, who usually runs news headquarters ashore when the President goes to sea without the press. Detailed to take "Mac's" place in Miami was Assistant Secretary Bill Hassett, the quiet, dependable oldtime AP man whom Franklin Roosevelt calls "My Bartlett, my Roget, my Buckle...
...arms it is now buying, how to scotch the dictators and maintain peace at the same time, the U. S. was divided last week into two camps about as follows: 1) those who believe that the dictators cannot live forever and that anyhow Europe had best be left to take care of itself-they want a big stick just in case, and 2) those who want to stand up on top of the barricade, shake the stick in such an unequivocal manner that the dictators will mend their ways...
Clark Hodder's icemen will take on Princeton for the fifth time this season tonight when they face off on Tiger ice in a tilt that will count both in the Quadranglar League and International League...