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Democratic Britain and France were reported trying to get Democrat Davis to wend his appeasing way to Berlin and Rome, beard Hitler and Mussolini with blandishments. The Paris newspundit Pertinax suggested that the Great Powers might succeed if President Roosevelt would find a way to permit Germany and Italy to borrow hugely in return for agreements by Berlin and Rome to cease arriving and give concessions "such as to involve the practical disappearance of Hitlerism and Fascism"-this being Pertinax'?, sly way of saying that Mr. Davis faces the supreme challenge to his optimism. In London David Lloyd George...
...strength and courage straightway back to wend...
...find themselves by restoring the players to the positions and companions they are used to but it is apparent that that idea has not clicked. As the team now stands there are only two or three who remember that there are other players wearing the Crimson while the rest wend their merry way down the ice to try to make a goal without help...
Incidentally, the self-appointed critics are now free to wend their way out of the Augean stables. Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth and Radcliffe are cleansed from any taint of originality. There is no retort--except, possibly, the rather ineffectual expedient of mentioning the Eleventh Commandment, whose essence is concerned mostly with minding one's business...
...love and debts and jangled through a jumble of life in doubts afterworse, wetting with the bim-blebeaks, drikking with nautonects, bilking with durrydunglecks and horing after ladybirdies (ichnehmon diagelegenaitoikon) he fell joust as sieck as a sexton and tantoo pooveroo quant a churchprince, and wheer the midges to wend hemsylph or vosch to sirch for grub for his corapusse or to find a hospes. alick, he wist gnit...