Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anybody can enjoy listening to the strains of Mendelssohn with the seat of his pants out." On President Roosevelt's promise that he did not want to become a dictator: "Assurances are not worth a continental when they come from men who care no more for their word than a tomcat cares for a marriage license in a back alley on a dark night." On AAA: "I was number eight in a brood of ten. Under this New Deal ... I never would have arrived at all. Or, had I been fortunate enough to have seen daylight . . . little Henry Wallace...
While she was being sentenced to 60 days, word came that a posse had got Jim Godwin. Hefty, heartbroken Lulu Belle wept again. That report was false, but after Bill Wilson lost his nerve, sneaked away and squealed, they did get Godwin, subdued him with a load of bird shot in the face. He still swore he had planned to come back for Lulu Belle and go straight -after he had robbed enough gas stations. Lulu Belle, out on $200 bail and hiding her fat red face at home, didn't believe him this time. She had found...
...back as the 12th Century, England imported the best leather from Cordova, Spain, and by the time Chaucer wrote his Canterbury Tales it was natural for an English shoemaker of standing who used the best Cordovan leather to be called a "cordewaner." Later the word became "cordwainer...
...control, re-signed when complete charge of the China policy was taken from his office, put in the hands of an army-sponsored China Control Board. Ambassador Saito, regarded as too liberal by the army, declined on the grounds of ill health. Piqued, Premier Konoye took him at his word, told him that if he was too ill for the Foreign Ministry he was certainly too ill to continue in Washington, ordered him home...
Commissions of the two churches have explored bases for unity, have narrowed the differences in their beliefs considerably-but have not eliminated them. Although both believe that the Bible is the Word of God, American Lutherans believe it more fully, their commission holding that Scripture is "one organic whole without contradiction and error." United Lutherans go no farther than to concede that the Bible is "a complete, perfect, unbreakable whole of which Christ is the centre." This week the Baltimore conference votes on (and is expected to accept) a statement of faith, prepared by Lutheran theologians, which will place their...