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Spending to fulfill the Five-Year Plan has exceeded all estimates. With a throb of triumph in his powerful voice, Orator Molotov drew cheers from his audience by stating that whereas the Government had planned to spend only $23,250,000,000 on the Five-Year Plan it will have spent by next year $27,000,000,000, the original scope of the Plan having, of course, been much enlarged. "We shall yet fulfill the Five-Year Plan in four years!" cried Premier Molotov. Twenty times in this part of his speech he repeated his pet word, "we shall organize...
...both exaggerated-he from ingrained Irish chivalry, she from stage convention. He called her "dearest and beautifullest," "dearest love"; she called him "sweet-heart," "my beautiful," tried to get him to call her "Nellen," but he wouldn't. Once Shaw wrote to her: "Dearest Love: send me one throb of your heart whilst it is still tender with illness. It will be hard again on Monday; so be quick, quick, quick." Once Ellen Terry wrote to him: "Dear fellow, Goodbye. On each of your fingers', goodbye, and on the end of your little nose, good-bye." As their...
...facts are known of the life & times of Amy Leslie: She was born at West Burlington, Iowa, in 1860, one year before the Civil War began. Dramatically she has suggested her early martial impressions: "Before my ears were attuned to music or my eyes keen for sunshine, the muffled throb of drums and shuffling feet beating time bore strange wonderings to my small, eager mind." After she was graduated from St. Mary's Academy (South Bend, Ind.) in 1876, she took to the light operatic stage, appearing in La Mascotte, Fatinitza, Erminie, The Mikado, H. M. S. Pinafore, The Pirates...
...pick my songs most of the time for the amount of 'heart throb' there is in them," she said. "You know, the kids like sob stuff...
...decade since the War. The summer of 1929 was to have seen German mercantile prestige finally restored with added lustre by the completion of two new and superb liners, the Bremen and the Europa, expected to be fastest in the World (TIME, Aug. 27). There was a great swelling throb of joy in the solemn throat of Old Paul von Hindenburg as he launched the Bremen with these words: "Seventy years ago [when President Hindenburg was ten] the then young North German Lloyd launched its first vessel for trans-Atlantic service. It gave the craft the name of Bremen...