Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merciless forces of annihilation are arrayed for the final battle against the American people. If we lose this battle, the Government will be overwhelmed with irretrievable disaster. * * * On the eve of this decisive battle Franklin D. Roosevelt is the Nation's Commander in Chief. * * * His order is not to watch and wait; it is not to retreat; his thunderous, thrilling command is 'Forward, march.'" In the spirit of those words the Congress and the President worked shoulder to shoulder. Perhaps it would be too much to say now that the battle is already won. But undeniably the sunshine is breaking...
They pledged themselves to "watch the polls [lest] the Wets put across any crooked counting of the votes" at forthcoming Repeal elections. They heard Pastor Norman Vincent Peale of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church deplore the fact that "a very high public official, who should represent in his personal attitude the sacred ideals of the people, begins his summer vacation in a sailing vessel on Sunday."* They learned from Mrs. Dora B. Whitney of Michigan that recitations of "The Face On The Barroom Floor'' effectively aided a Dry campaign. They passed a resolution asking "fairminded...
...more than perfect when we get some California sun on him." Meanwhile Mrs. J. Ogden Armour described her adopted grandson as "rather tall, with brown eyes, scarcely any hair and a particularly engaging smile." Said she: "Already he has entangled himself in the heartstrings of all of us." At Watch Hill, R. L. on a rented seaside estate, Libby Holman Reynolds considered the town's eight policemen, then ensured the safety of her six-month-old son by engaging six armed guards and a Great Dane. At an early morning "lineup" in Manhattan police headquarters appeared Author Andre Maurois...
...Yorkshire's West Riding, in the midst of the woolen industry, she joined her passion for story-telling to a lively interest in her surroundings. "As a child I used often to go to my father's mill, lean over the edge of the boiler pit and watch the various processes of cloth manufacture. My father was a man very highly skilled in all textile processes, and famous for this far beyond the walls of his own mill. . . ." Authoress Bentley went to Cheltenham and London for her education, then came back to Yorkshire to write about the things...
...Watch Her was placed on the outside position for bad behavior. She got off to a good start, broke away from the field after a few strides. Jockey Pascuma, who had intended to let her gallop home last as a matter of form, allowed her to run as fast as she wanted. He was even more amazed than the crowd when she ran fast enough to win, a length and a half ahead of Miss Merriment at the finish...