Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...splendid claws and the talk all night of the villagers...
...national industrial mobilization plan relies in large measure on a spirit of cooperation, and Colonel Rutherford bestowed high praise on the attitude of American industry toward the industrial war plans of the government. The response to preliminary field studies and surveys by the War Department "has been a splendid tribute to the patriotism of American industry," he wrote. "A spirit of wholehearted cooperation has prevailed which has made the work of organization a stimulating force to the officers of the army responsible for industrial contacts...
...travelogue of the Nile region in the midst of an adventure story. The very half-hearted attempts to make the film a character study also help in hindering the force of the story. One redeeming feature, however, is the acting. Ralph Richardson and C. Aubrey Smith both turn in splendid performances. But their efforts, though valiant, fail to stifle at the University this weekend...
...strong as these sorry reasons were, two splendid ways of looking at his neutrality remained to Il Duce. In the military situation created by the West Wall-Maginot Line stalemate, a neutral Italy, blocking access to Germany via the Tyrolean passes, had tremendous nuisance value. It would force Britain & France to go clear around through the Dardanelles, Black Sea and Rumania to assist Poland and establish the Salonika front (see p. 22). It was nuisance so great that it might bring B. Mussolini a fancy price if he chose to sell...
...pressagent, a photographer. Posed in her Hollywood apartment, Cinemactress West and Leader Buchman smiled happily, swapped compliments. Beamed Mae, billowy in pink negligee: "It is a wonderful work. ... I owe all my success to the kind of thinking Moral Re-Armament is." Gallantly responded Dr. Buchman: "You are a splendid character, Miss West. You have done wonderful work...