Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most fiery speaker was former Air Minister Pierre Cot, renowned for baiting Adolf Hitler, who contended that the Mediterranean would no longer be free if the Italians were allowed to hold to the Balearic Islands, hinted that French deputies had been influenced by Nazi anti-Bolshevist propaganda, wound up by describing Germany's internal weakness. Said M. Cot: "The Hitler regime's only hope lies in bluff or, at worst, in a short war. Thanks to the excesses of Nazi rule France can now count on ten American workers behind every French soldier...
When Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest was revived on Broadway fortnight ago, New York Times Critic Brooks Atkinson reviewed it as though it were a new play, wound up by suggesting that Wilde showed promise. So many readers have telephoned in to correct Atkinson's "mistake" that the Times editorially made clear that he was spoofing...
Young Roosevelt and young Frankfurter met again in Wartime Washington, Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Frankfurter as a legal jack-of-all-trades who wound up as assistant and right-hand man to Secretary of War Newton Baker. Both were members of the War Labor Policies Board, set up to straighten out the employment conditions of the overworked Government agencies and industries with Government contracts. Before returning to Harvard, Frankfurter thoroughly enjoyed himself as one of the brighter apostles of Wilson's "New Freedom." With a group of cronies he lived, entertained and talked in a house...
...fought Reform Bill. At 33 he was a member of the supreme council of India. (Resigning five years later, Macaulay left behind a new Indian penal code and educational system, had saved ?30,000.) He became the most successful English essayist (sometimes so intoxicated with erudite digressions that he wound up lamely saying that space did not permit him to finish); and a historian whose publishers gladly sent him ?20,000 advance royalties on the last volume of his History of England. Thus ugly, harsh-voiced Thomas Macaulay seemed, to all but a handful of his contemporaries, to have amply...
...telephone call from the Brazilian Foreign Office at Rio de Janeiro to Lima, Peru, 2,400 miles away, unofficially but effectually wound up the Eighth Pan-American Conference one afternoon last week. The Brazilian delegation at Lima was told it could string along with the 20 other American nations in ratifying the "solidarity" declaration over which the conference had higgled for a fortnight. It was the most noteworthy achievement of the meeting and it did a little more than any agent or agency since Nature to bring the Western Hemisphere together...