Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Addis Ababa warrior chiefs of the Noble Savage type bitterly and contemptuously complain, "Our Emperor is a businessman!" They should thank Ethiopia's stars. The astounding marvel is that Africa's unique Museum of Peoples has produced a businessman-with high-pressure publicity, compelling sales talk, the morals of a patent medicine advertisement, a grasp of both savage and diplomatic mentality, and finally with plenty of what Hollywood calls IT. The Emperor was "too smart" only once in 1935, when he tried by granting the Rickett Concession to Standard Oil to embroil the U. S. directly in Ethiopia...
...even chance of a catastrophe. Not that Ivy Orators of the past have uniformly been failures. On the contrary, there have been quite a few extremely successful orations. But they have been acts of God, purely fortuitous circumstances, and surely, all future generations of attendants at Commencement celebrations will thank the Student Council for the security which lies in selecting an orator for his orating abilities, and a funny man for his humor, even if the action does break with hallowed traditions, and is carried through with so high a hand...
...bricks. Mom and Violet and Macon and Big Sister and me squattin in corners munchin a brick apiece. Not eem gravy or sweetenin either. . . . Hello, Tooter. How you? . . . Oh, kissin runs in our family. . . . Hello, Shackle. Hidy-do, good-lookin. How you? Oh, I'm all right, thank-you-mam. . . . Pete won't care much. She's kissed everbody they is aready . . . and I'll stand there and watch them go down and they'll die lookin up and bein afraid...
...Thank ye, I can manage my cookies all right enough," said Bill in a squeaking voice, "ye just watch the Hatter doesn't sneak some away in his hat like he did last time...
...would thank you most sincerely for the splendid article you published in TIME, Oct. 28 with reference to the World Convention of the Lutheran Church. It is bright and attractive; yet, at the same time bringing out the distinctive qualities of that gathering...