Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State set foot in America, and lo! all the inhabitants are tumbling over one another in their desire for a glimpse of him-a desire which is the natural and pathetic outcome of their unsatisfied inner craving for a dynasty of their own. . . . But, given a republic, let the thing be done thoroughly, let the appearance be well kept up, as in Switzerland. Let the president be, as there, a furtive creature and insignificant, not merely coming no man knows whence, nor merely passing no man knows whither, but existing no man knows where; and existing not even...
...cries of "Encirclement" by the Nazi propaganda machine, the Foreign Secretary had a sharp rebuttal: "We are told that our motives are to isolate Germany . . . Germany is isolating herself and doing it most successfully and completely. . . . The last thing we desire is to see the individual German man or woman or child suffering privations; but if they do so the fault does not lie with us ... for any day it can be ended by a policy of cooperation. ... I come next to Lebensraum [living space]. ... It can only be solved by ... adjusting and improving . . . relations with other countries abroad...
...outstanding issue left to quibble over was Russia's demand that the Baltic States also be guaranteed against a change of internal regime, i. e. Nazification. If the pact reports proved true and the Anglo-Russian Pact is at last to be signed, it could mean just one thing: this time Britain is in a fighting mood...
...costumed chorus perform the dance, invited the audience to join in in the aisles. Boomps-a-Daisy goes as follows: face partner, tap hands; clap hands to knees; "with great delicacy and discretion," boomp hip against bustle; place hand on heart, bow; waltz for four bars; repeat the whole thing. Boomps-a-Daisy was launched in the U. S. on a television program in Manhattan last fortnight, is to be tried out at Manhattan hotels in mid-July...
...Manhattan and Washington, sometime Prohibitionist, occasional poet, politician, busy bee, life in the last 25 years has been just one Cause after another. Two months ago, with no immediate Cause to occupy her, ardent Mrs. Patterson had time to contemplate something that had been bothering her. What this thing was she was not sure, but it had something to do with foreign isms, and was probably due to hard times...