Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Humph! Nothing particularly important," remarked the Captain, then resumed the discussion. "Anything they can say about a Harvard man they say it. Newspapers love to any unpleasant things about people. Now we're equipped to handle any real riot. We've got tear gas bombs, and in a few minutes we could summon two dozen men by telephone. But all this talk about Harvard riots is crazy. Now the Bonus Veterans, put on a real riot. Nope, there hasn't been a Harvard riot in years...
...engineer, sued Fairbanks for $50,000 for alienation of his divorced wife Solveig's "maliciously debauched" affections and for $20,000 for four hours' false imprisonment last December when Fairbanks charged extortion. Said Mrs. Fairbanks: "The Dietz suit has nothing to do with our separation. We've really been separated a whole year. This is the only brave thing for us to do." Mrs. Dietz in Copenhagen said Fairbanks would get a Paris divorce and marry her. Douglas Jr. said, "Joan is the only woman for me," announced he would rewoo...
...always been dry. For years before Prohibition there were laws forbidding the sale of liquor in Cambridge. Now Somerville was the wet place--you could buy anything there, but it wouldn't have done any good to sell beer around College. A Harvard man satisfied with beer? Say, I've lived here in Cambridge all my life, and I never yet seen the Harvard man that only took a stein of beer when he felt real thirsty...
...room. Miss Keller had been deeply affected by Pygmalion and Saint Joan, waited long in a flutter of hero worship for the great Shaw to wake from a nap. When he came, she groped out her hand, felt a hand "bristling with egotism" take it slackly. She: "I've wanted to know you for ever so long." He: "Why do all you Americans say the same thing?" Her companion tapped his words into her hand. Lady Astor put in, ''Shaw, don't you realize that this is Helen Keller? She is deaf and blind." Snapped brutal...