Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some suspicious New Dealers thought this phrase was a joke to make the new law ineffective. Drafters of the bill insisted it was just the contrary: inserted to make the law work, because a law giving the Attorney General the right to intervene in cases where the Government has no interest would be unconstitutional...
...never crowned, and Premier Nahas knew that the Egyptian people grew accustomed, when they were subjects of Turkey, to seeing each new Sultan symbolically invested with the Sword. Fortunately modern Egypt possesses the gorgeously jeweled sword of Mohammed Ali, founder of the present Egyptian dynasty, or so the Premier thought. Upon actually looking for this historic State Sword, it simply could not be found. With neither sword nor crown exactly available, His Majesty's Government ordered that anyhow the State procession should be featured by bright red limousines, changed this finally to one bright red limousine for Premier Nahas...
...good time. The transparent simplicity of the Patterson narrative style rarely overreaches itself in such cuteness as "The wind . . . was still as still," generally flows with something like Huckleberry Finn's blank, wide-awake homeliness. Harry always noticed a lot of things that other people never thought about. It came to him that his experience in Vera Cruz was specially planned by God as part of his training. In lonely sea-watches he figured it out. God had given him his common sense and uncommon luck to enable him some day to sail out across the Black Ocean where...
...weighed 7! Ib. in typescript, ran to over 1,600 pages in manuscript, 618 pages in print, and was going to be a successor to Gone With The Wind. Critics were not so optimistic. Some believed that the newcomer's size might be due to glandular trouble. Others thought it might choke to death on its title...
...into their headquarters in a remote Welsh castle. There unexpectedly he meets the Duke of Cumberland, a fiendish Frenchwoman who turns out to be his grandmother, and his father, who finally divulges the facts about Christopher's parentage, which "is both better and worse than the reader thought. In chains after making mincemeat of two burly guards, dreamy six-foot Christopher defies his captors to do their worst, says he means to guarantee Victoria's accession to the throne. Having made good many pages later, Christopher asks nothing in return except a royal document canceling his actress friend...