Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happy couple posed easily for press photographers, one of whom snapped them going into action (see cut). But not forthcoming was the one announcement for which all correspondents were waiting: the date of the wedding. Not for several days was this vital declaration made; then the Duke revealed that he and Mrs. Warfield will be married on June 3. Reason announcement was delayed: a stiff three-cornered fight behind the scenes between the Duke, the British Government and the Royal Family. This time the trouble* was not money. Edward of Windsor was demanding, the Baldwin Government was doing everything...
...main difficulties were getting the right people to talk (the wrong ones talked too much), getting permission to visit such points of interest as Southern coal mines, Butte copper mines. Artist and writer acquaintances talked freely but about two most vital subjects, Southern history and Negroes, they seemed "inhuman, almost mad." When he asked permission to go down in a coal mine the owner said: "We are only one company, and we don't wish to monopolize this gentleman's time. Why don't you go to another company and ask them to show you their mines...
Lord Bellomont wrote Kidd two weasel letters to lure him ashore, then clapped him in jail, sent him to London. At his trial Kidd was not allowed counsel. As evidence that the prizes he had taken were legitimate, he had kept their French "passes" (commissions); but these vital papers had been taken from him and he could not produce them in court. Their evidence would not have affected the verdict, thinks Author Wilkins. The British Admiralty was determined to make an example of him. Reason: India's Great Mogul, tired of English pirates, had threatened to drive...
...Europe", he said, "we simply cannot stay out of Pacific affairs. The forces there affect too closely our true self-interests. What I would like to suggest is that 'scuttle and run' is inspired by a short view of the present set of facts, facts which are rapidly changing. Vital problems arising from new forces are creeping upon us unaware...
...Physics department, where the problem is most vital, a few willing tutors endeavor to supply this training, snowed under as they are by their own work...