Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...safely into the harbour of tranquillity and better times." Even more confident of peace was Edward Lyndoe in The People: "Anyone who listens to, and believes, this War-by-the-end-of-August rubbish is beyond hope." In the Sunday Chronicle Petulengro said: "News from Germany will again cause concern, but the planets ruling this country will smooth over the difficulties...
...libel that the State Department is made up of "cookie-pushers" whose chief concern is the hang of their striped trousers, was just true enough to make many a grave, correct, dry-worded gentleman in the Department dislike the appointment of Joe Kennedy to London. They correctly foresaw such incidents as Kennedy's telling Queen Elizabeth to her face that she was "a cute trick." They did not foresee that Queen Elizabeth would be pleased and flattered beyond words...
...read so much ridiculing Governor Dickinson of Michigan for his utterances, I am prompted to express my feelings. First, permit me to state that I am not a crusader or reformer. I am merely a medical practitioner in a college town of 4,500. It is of no special concern to me whether it be New York or Padooka-one fact is very obvious all about us-we as a nation are becoming extremely calloused, and as Damon Runyon so aptly put it in his column a few days ago, extremely sinful...
...brother-in-law (Franklin Dexter) of U. S. Tennist Sarah Palfrey Fabyan were aboard. Since no U. S. lives were lost the incident was far less grave internationally than the sinking of the Lusitania (of 1,198 dead, 124 were Americans), but officials in Washington, D. C. expressed angry concern (see p. 13). Winston Churchill's staff sped plans to convoy all passenger ships with British men-o'-war. President Roosevelt discussed giving U. S. ships like protection. >First prize of the British naval forces was the German freighter Olinda, bound for Hamburg with $700,000 worth...
...urgent war to keep Poland from falling apart. General Smigly-Rydz's main concern was not whether it was to be a world war or a local war, whether casualties were to be ten or 10,000,000. What was important was that Poland, which had so often divided, should not divide again...