Word: wrote
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Ruler that "the idea which credits the State with unlimited authority" was abhorrent to him. "To consider the State as something ultimate to which everything else should be subordinated and directed cannot fail to harm the true and lasting prosperity of nations," read the Encyclical. Again, the Pontiff wrote that the totalitarian system of government was an idea which "robs the law of nations of its foundation and vigor, leads to violation of others' rights and impedes agreement and peaceful intercourse...
...clock, with three hours to make the deadline for the Times early-morning editions, she picked up a telephone and tried to get James Roosevelt at his home in Beverly Hills. Two hours later she was still ringing, had got no answer. So Hedda Hopper sat down and wrote her story...
More than that he did not have to say. Hedda Hopper shook his hand understandingly, hopped in her car, drove straight to the office of the Los Angeles Times. There she wrote a new lead, quoting James Roosevelt's words. The front page was replated, pushing aside news of the war in Europe. At four in the morning on a quiet Sunday last week Hedda Hopper's story was on the street. A characteristic California story, it ranked as the Pacific Coast's newsbeat of the year...
...Some of our country towns have lately come to have a Continental look," wrote the editor of the British Lancet last week, "for every morning every window is filled with bedding hung out to air in the sunshine. The scene is cheerful, but the householders are depressed; for the habit of bedwetting, in guests who are likely to stay a long time, is a serious tax on hospitality. . . . Somewhat unexpectedly, eneuresis has proved to be one of the major menaces to the comfortable disposition of evacuated urban children . . . and at a time of widespread domestic crisis we make no apology...
Last week the London press still printed cheery little notes from city children evacuated to the countryside. A small boy wrote: "Dear Mum and Dad, please send Colin and me some more trousers. We have been blackberrying. I have scores of mosketoe bites. P.S.-Please send some more muney. I have 4d. and Colin only has 2d." A small girl: "The lady's little girl is three weeks older than me, but I'm bigger. ... She says I talk funny. I told her I'm a Cockerney. Her uncle is a sailor too. Tell Dad to look...