Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prohibition. The subject, because it was so largely emotional, made him impatient and cross. It was his wish to fight out the 1932 campaign on economic issues. He liked the slogan "Bread, not Beer." He feared that any notice he or his party might take of Prohibition would tend to magnify "beer" over "bread" and thus divert public attention from his long strenuous efforts to pull the country out of Depression. But "General"' Brown was persistent. He lined up most of the Cabinet for a Prohibition change. He hammered home to the President the necessity of the Wet vote...
Prolixity, in fact is the word which best sums up "Three Loves," the words are too long; the sentences are pompous, and the length of the tales as a whole defeats any impression of unity which the reader might draw from it. These defects tend to obscure the genuine merits of a novel which has a strong grip on the analysis of character, a flair for sombre narrative, and an ability to reveal the clash of kindred temperaments, which is a more welcome heritage from the author of "Jude the Obscure," than the allusive and deliberate style...
Also why is it most midgets seem to be continental Europeans by birth? Are both my generalizations wrong? And my further observation is that freakish giants also tend to have squeaky voices; that small fully matured normal men frequently have deep bass voices...
...Occidental (Prussian) style of Constitution in 1889 and de facto from the founding of Japan's oldest political party (Seiyukai) in 1900. Naturally the Army & Navy with their ancient traditions scorn Japanese Constitutionalism which is only in its swaddling clothes. The lower classes (both proletarians arid peasants) tend to approve each fresh assassination of a politician or financier by a civilian or a member of the fighting services...
...Exchange control . . ." earnestly warned Mr. McGarrah. "forces trade into a kind of straitjacket, leaving little or no room for the play of economic forces . . that normally tend to re-establish equilibrium...