Word: warn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrived in starving Finland at Christmas time in 1918 aroused such excitement as these present imports of 'legal liquor' into a country already full of illegal liquor. . . . Touching the assertion that the State will derive some benefit from these liquor sales it is my solemn duty to warn the Finnish people against attempting to employ Beelzebub to expel Satan...
Meanwhile Sydney seethed. Sydney is the Capital of New South Wales and its agent in London is, in Sydney's eyes, almost an ambassador. If Agent Willis had seen fit to warn Premier Lang, extraordinary precautions must be taken against the "plot...
...Stimson letter was the announcement by the U. S. Government last January that it would recognize no treaty-violating spoils which Japan might wring from China as the result of current fighting. Now, however. Secretary Stimson invited other governments to take a similar position so that "a caveat [warn-ing] will be placed upon such action which, we believe, will effectively bar the legality hereafter of any title or right obtained by pressure or treaty violation . . . and will eventually lead to the restoration to China of rights and titles of which she may have been deprived." Few of the things...
...Beware, ye demons of a vanishing Empire! We warn officers of the British Government always to move about armed. At a signal we will kill marked officers. Congressmen [members of the Indian National Congress] do not interfere without solemn duties...
...keep from seeing him. When daughter Marise met Westcott she fell in love with him very quickly; Leda, blind where her daughter was concerned, never noticed it. Westcott fell half in love with Marise, but Leda fascinated him. Marise's aunt saw what was coming and tried to warn Marise; before she could, Leda announced her engagement. Instead of fainting, Marise went into the bathroom and was sick. After Leda's honeymoon Leda died, happy, of a heartattack. Westcott and Marise were left in a pretty pickle...