Word: thanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Villa Sciarra in 1930 for use as a public park. That was soon after energetic, beauteous Mrs. John Work Garrett (who last week lectured on art before the King & Queen) had arrived in Rome, begun to displace other U. S. social arbiters. The handsome call Benito Mussolini made to thank Mrs. Wurts for her present was rich compensation for the fading glory of her last years. Last week her entire estate went to 77 Duce...
...During this anxious month there are a good many people who have said what I've been saying for years: Thank God for the French Army...
...struggling to get out of a fence. He threw his reins to the man nearest him. dismounted, extricated the cow, discovered that the Prince was holding his horse. If Ambrose Clark was disgruntled at the performance of Chadd's Ford last week, he had himself to thank. He bought Kellsboro Jack in Ireland several years ago, gave him to Mrs. Clark last year because he was "unlucky...
...Secretary Louis Howe bought a new suit, the President issued a playful "special bulletin" to the Press. Last week, when Radio Commentator Edwin C. Hill broadcast over C. B. S. an approving report of the President's first actions, the President had Secretary Steve Early telephone Reporter Hill, thank him, ask for a copy of his speech. With all admiration, slangy newshawks describe their new White House character as "a smoothie...
...common difficulties concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunk to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce: the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone. A host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment...