Word: whims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Excoriating the German Government of today for ''crushing" not only Jews but also Protestants, Catholics and whomever else is not quick to toe the Hitler-Goring-Goeb- bels-Streicher-Rosenberg line, Mr. Mc-Donald bitterly concludes that in Germany what now passes for "law" is merely the "whim" of German bigwigs defying world public opinion beneath the swastika...
Marjorie Post inherited her father's energy along with his millions. A tall, handsome woman of 52 with a startling snow-white streak in her otherwise darkish hair, she is possessed of a whim of iron. Her first husband was Edward B. Close, whom she divorced...
...knowledge, the preparation, the thought even an important commercial contract merits and receives. God made marriage an indissoluble contract, Christ made it a sacrament, the world today has made it a plaything of passion, an accompaniment of sex, a scrap of paper to be torn up at the whim of the participants...
...wall. On top of a small metal housing, shaped like a truncated pyramid, is a fork carrying the transmitter. Inside the housing is the ringing mechanism, two musical gongs which may be rung emphatically with a metal clapper or softly with a wooden one at the subscriber's whim. Recessed into the housing is the dial, which operates almost noiselessly...
...this holy night is ringing with the revelry of a thousand guests; and somewhere old dames are telling an old story over again: How on this eve thoughtful maids "If ceremonies they did aright . . . " might win sight of their lover in their dreams. The fair Madeline, full of this whim is preparing in her chamber. Already Porphyro stands beside the castle gates. An old beldame speaks...