Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife Myrtle, his 17-year-old daughter Shirley. The Tapps had been looking forward to the meeting. Shirley, who was "saved" at 14 by the Full Salvation Union, remarked: "It's going to be a great meeting although the Devil has sent ice and snow to try to thwart the Christians." So when Evangelist Wright brought his exhortations to a shouting climax, pale, pious Shirley Tapp was among the first to hasten up to the altar, burst into prayer. "Oh, Lord," cried she, "I will always praise You and never be afraid to bear Your name!" Then & there...
Notwithstanding the fact that since 1922: England has closed her eyes to Mussolini's outspoken desire for war and expansion, thereby encouraging him, sided with him against Ethiopia and on other occasions when she wished to thwart France, now that her own interests are at stake, she expects France to forget everything and ardently woos her in the hope that she can spellbind her to her side...
Every leading Briton seemed on the qui vive last week to thwart Benito Mussolini's candid designs on Ethiopia. Political fossils like bemonocled Nobel Peace Prizeman Sir Austen Chamberlain, shaggy-maned David Lloyd George, Tea-pot-Tempester Winston Churchill- and Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, who has lately collected 11,000,000 British straw votes for Peace, all hustled in to see Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare...
...continuing to teach. More explanation of Communism would undoubtedly cause many unwarranted dismissals. It is impossible to subscribe to the opinion of our super-patriotic organizations that ignorance is bliss. Nor is it possible it support yellow-press inspired and emotional legislating rather than reason in the effort to thwart Communism...
Japan's late, illustrious Emperor Meiji (1852-1912), who extracted his realm from Medievalism and started the buzz-saw of Progress, was prayerfully approached last week by 5,000 neat, respectful Tokyo policemen at the Meiji Shrine They hoped he would help them thwart the assassination of an especially honored guest of Japan's Divine Emperor bespectacled young Son-of-Heaven Hirohito With 15 days of such pomp as even the Orient has seldom seen, Japan was giving a $1,000,000 coming-out party for her shy puppet Emperor of Manchukuo His Majesty Kang...