Word: thankfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rebuttal. In 1857 Thomas Babington Macaulay wrote to his friend Henry Stephens Randall, onetime (1851-53) New York Secretary of State, ostensibly to thank him for a four volume set of the Colonial History of New York. But the substance of the letter was Lord Macaulay's Whiggish reflections on Randall's biography of Thomas Jefferson and on the political future of the U. S. This letter stirred in Republican James Abram Garfield so much resentment that 21 years later he flayed it from the stump during a Congressional campaign.* Last week Franklin Roosevelt, like Garfield before...
After returning home from the hospital, Mrs. Bridges went over to thank my aunt for remaining with her in that dark, cold alley. Mr. Bridges never said a word, but looked as if he might have one day when he was backing out his car from his garage when my aunt happened to pass...
...Egyptian town of importance had been equipped by the Government in recent weeks with a radio loudspeaker in the public square and the whole kingdom could listen for the first time to its sovereign. "I pledge myself to be the first servant of my country," broadcast Farouk I. "I thank everyone, the Egyptian people and also foreigners, for the loyalty they have shown to the fatherland and to myself...
...better duck." Pete, who acted drunk, roared with laughter and Mars Turner had a bad moment. But Marshal Dorris looked the other way and drove straight to Chickasha to get help. To Mars Turner's surprise, they paid him. He said, "Thank you. Come again...
...fidgety" but she took careful notes on what they could teach Japanese women about coquetry. From Italy she carried away an impression of Fascism "as disagreeable as bones that stick in the teeth." The first requisite for a pleasant tour, says Madame Ichikawa, is to know the words for "thank you" and "lavatory." Much interested in intimate conveniences, from what she could make out in going through historic castles over Europe she "often wondered if such noble personages as Elizabeth and Maria Theresa urinated...