Word: wanes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Lord Asquith was the last legitimate successor to William Ewart Gladstone as Liberal Leader. When Asquith's power began to wane David Lloyd George seized Liberal leadership but he was deserted at the last election by orthodox Liberal Sir Herbert Samuel and unorthodox Liberal Sir John Simon, the latter remaining in the Cabinet last week supported by 35 Liberal...
...American principles is the increasing abhorrence of educated young men for politics. Politics is no longer a decent profession. . . . When a government has fallen in the estimation of a people so that the finest and strongest people will not take part in it, that government is on the wane. The American Government is menaced by a very real, nation-wide disgust of this kind...
...novel' is now on the wane, unless the novel is very well done. I have just published a novel myself which has been described as 'having a respect for the decencies'-presumably because that is so unusual a thing." Books written by Author-Publisher Lord Gorell include: Babes in the African Wood; Rosamund; Plush; Gauntlet (1931). To the Baron last week Prince George wrote a gracious acknowledgment on the stationery for which he recently designed his own monogram: an Old English G, surmounted by a coronet and surrounded by the Garter. (Same monogram on his handkerchiefs.) "Prince...
...Hitler failed to live up to the claims which he and his followers had been making before the first voting in Germany on March 13, and for this reason it may turn out that public faith in him is shaken and his power in German politics is on the wane," said S. B. Fay '96, professor of History in an interview last night after the results of the final German election were made known...
...saluting that flag; for observing hartal, that is, closing your business as a protest against the imprisonment of Gandhi; for peaceful demonstrations on the street; for making speeches urging the freedom of India. . . . "The attempt made to create the impression that Gandhi's influence is on the wane, that he is losing his hold on the imagination of the people of India, is utterly misleading. . . . One wonders whether the British are misleading the world as to the true situation or are deceived themselves." Not quite such a Wicked Ogre as Indian mothers tell their children he is. Viceroy Earl...