Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime Minister said that he would attempt to define the attitude of His Majesty's Government. "I deliberately use the word 'attitude' rather than policy," he weightily continued, "because I cannot imagine that any event would change the fundamental basis of British foreign policy, which is the maintenance and preservation of peace and the establishment of a sense of confidence that peace will in fact be maintained...
...judgment it would be proper under the conditions of the [League] Covenant to do so." The Prime Minister, indicating that His Majesty's Government have not renounced that pledge, went on to quote the further explanation of it by Mr. Eden, who continued : "I use the word 'may' deliberately, since, in such an instance, there is no auto-matic obligation to take military action. It is, moreover, right that this should be so, for nations cannot be expected to incur automatic military obligations save for areas where their vital interests are concerned...
...Waiting on his San Simeon, Calif, doorstep last month, William Randolph Hearst had a shock. Word was brought him that a few miles away, Britain's top-notch socialites, Lord & Lady Plunket, arriving as guests in one of his newspapers' airplanes, had crashed and burned to death. Lady Plunket, 38, was the only child of Actress Fannie Ward who, at 66, still weighs 100 pounds, still wears size twelve clothes, still advocates her "cult of youth." and is known in England as a U. S.-born "perennial flapper...
...Chicago has 9,331 taverns (the word "bar" is prohibited by law), one for every 388 inhabitants; of 3,000 taverns sampled, nine out of ten violated various laws, 392 provided indecent dancing exhibitions, 113 prostitution...
Comrade Chowder will come to Cambridge from a retreat in Leavenworth in an armored plane, L. Lane Leeway, President of the Young Conservatives, declared yesterday in a prepared statement. "Marx my word," Leeway added, "Chowder will be able to handle even the Student Union hecklers--all right, all right--after all he has lectured at Yale...