Word: thing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Professor Holcombe pointed out that Wilson lost his political following when he led the country into the last war against its will, and if Roosevelt were to favor intervention he would be doing the same thing...
...that The Netherlands Indies officials should announce that negotiations had reached a "stalemate." Only the Japanese were silent. They had a feeling they would get their oil, a feeling that Britain and the U. S. were not ready to force a fight in the Pacific. Oil was one thing for which everyone thought Japan would be willing to fight...
Unlike its sister churches in the Anglican Communion, the Protestant Episcopal Church of the U. S. has never had an archbishop. But last week it took a step to get itself within three years the next thing to an archbishop. Hitherto U. S. Episcopalians have merely chosen a Presiding Bishop, expected him simultaneously to run his own diocese and head the church at large. The present Presiding Bishop, the Right Rev. Henry St. George Tucker of Virginia, has a nationwide job but ecclesiastical authority only in Virginia. Most often he is in Manhattan, where he must get leave from Bishop...
...pituitary extract, doused him in tubs of hot and cold water, sent him running up & down 15 flights of stairs. Still whiskey, etc. would send him into his dance. Nothing would cure him. He finally packed up and went home, resolved never to touch a drop again. One thing that consoled him: his leaping great-grandfather had lived to the ripe age of 87; his great-aunt, 72, and great-uncle, 81, were still dancing around the old homestead in the South...
...thing the Duquesne Club made clear at the outset: it never gave anything away. Even when rival bridge teams came to the club for tournaments they had to buy their own liquor. Cardroom receipts ran about $2,000 a year (35? a seat), but that was only ½ of 1% of the club's income. Biggest items were food and drink -nearly $300,000 yearly. Sometimes two-thirds of the club's 1,200-odd members would lunch simultaneously. The secretary could recall only one member having to be suspended for using unsuitable language. On New Year...