Word: scrawling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goods. To the White House last week went the leaders of the Congress to deliver the goods-the Neutrality Act that Franklin Roosevelt wanted-and see him scrawl his bold signature...
...people will never pull together. The Teuton looks down on a canaille of unwashed peasants; the Italian recoils from the Nordic boor whose barbarous jargon hurts Dantesque eardrums. The two flags cannot wave together for long. Compared with the noble Roman fasces, Hitler's Aryan swastika is a scrawl from a child's copybook...
That the younger generation has suddenly blossomed forth with a real interest in exploration was revealed when, on investigating the visitor's register at the Geographical Institute, the firm but jumbled scrawl of none other than Teddy Conant, younger son of the President, appeared among a host of learned dignitaries...
...began to scrawl about the coming of death: "Angina? Pseudo? Raising right hand over head ... hot water . . . relief. Angina . . . pain returning three to five minutes . . . gradual and gradual letup...
...ballots rolling off German presses last week to be used March 29 have only one circle. By making a cross in this the German citizen votes "Ja," and it is impossible for him to cast any other vote. Blank ballots or ballots on which a daring voter might scrawl "Nein" automatically are void...