Word: handed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...wrote to squelch, did squelch, the publicly expressed resentment at her practice of remaining inaccessible year after year, in mourning for her beloved husband, Prince Consort Albert. Although published "anonymously," the letter was discreetly made known as from the Royal hand. When a pile of letters from people he did not know was brought to the late, great Georges Clemenceau he usually threw away the signed ones, read the anonymous "because letters people write but do not sign always contain what is really in their hearts...
...MacDonald Government had not even yet disavowed the term "humbug," but Prime Minister Bennett with appropriate forbearance shook Mr. Thomas' hand at parting with a tight little smile. As the train chuffed out, Jim fairly carolled to correspondents...
General Damaso Berenguer y Fuste, bull-necked Prime Minister of Spain, stepped from his private office last week, waved an amiable plump hand at a group of reporters whom he knew personally, advanced with his brother and personal adjutant, Luis Berenguer y Fuste, toward the elevator. A pale young man by the name of Joaquin Llizo pulled a small pistol from his pocket, deliberately fired one shot into the ceiling. One of the duties of a Spanish Prime Minister's adjutant is wrestling with would-be assassins. Adjutant Berenguer promptly grappled with Pistoleer Llizo. General Berenguer spun...
...gratification-and that is not achieved." Alluding sarcastically to the numerous U. S., British, French and German citizens who have done business with the Soviet Government, Slasher Churchill mentioned particularly "young Mr. [William Averell] Harriman," thrust home this characteristic conclusion: "All in turn have sought to clasp that clammy hand. All in turn have recoiled injured, infected or at least defiled by its chill, poisonous sweat. But there are plenty of simpletons left to be gulled or bribed...
...including Old Briar, Dill's Best. There is George W. Helme Co. whose snuff earnings last year were $2,324,000. And there is American Snuff Co. with 1929 earnings of $2,109,000. Its leading brands are Garrett, Honest, Dental. American Snuff was formed in 1900, marched hand-in-hand with American Tobacco until 1911 when anti-trust action ordered it dissolved. As is true of American Tobacco, its chief competitors were once part...