Word: offering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking members of the British Cabinet to task for saying that Britain and France are fighting to produce a "change of heart" in Germany, Lord Darnley argued that: "A free offer [of peace] would more likely produce a change of heart and the security we require from Germany. The only satisfactory guarantee we ever will obtain is [German] good will." According to the noble Lord, Britain "in the years after Versailles [failed] to conciliate Germany," and Adolf Hitler has "aimed partly to make his country free and prosperous, but chiefly and mainly absolutely to free it from any danger...
...peace-without-victory, observing that the Government had not "taken seriously" the efforts of neutrals to mediate. Outstanding in the stuffy Church of England as a progressive student of social and industrial problems, the Bishop sharply criticized Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax for stipulating fortnight ago that Germany must offer "adequate guarantees" before peace negotiations can begin. Cried the Bishop: "Military, naval and economic guarantees which satisfy the most exacting critics have a way, after 20 years, of recoiling like boomerangs...
Justice Benedict E. Dineen retired to a conference room, summoned lawyers, Father Divine, and Colonel Julian. Reason for his offer: he wanted to restore peace. He haughtily produced a sheaf of warehouse receipts, replied with Oxonian accent: "I own more than $800,000 worth of aged whiskey. I am an adventurer. Within a few days I can raise $50,000 or $60,000. I've spent that much money in two or three weeks on a pleasure cruise...
...summer it is Sea Bright, Southampton, Newport, Rye-staying at the best hotels or draw-my-bath private homes. In the winter it is Palm Beach, Bermuda, Jamaica. In the spring Pinehurst, Asheville, Hot Springs-guests of hotel managements that occasionally offer more attractive bait for players than mere traveling expenses and $30-a-day suites. Some tournament promoters have been known to offer lump-sum traveling expenses that could take the player to Buenos Aires and back. Now & then a well-heeled promoter has even been known to get around the amateur code by making a friendly little wager...
...letter, which was addressed simply to Harvard University, went on to blame England for causing war and thus depriving Germany of a peaceful Christmas season. "We offer gratitude toward the good Lord for the wonderful protection of our beloved Fuehrer at Munich," it stated...