Foreign Phrases and Their Elegant Meanings
A compact gloss of French and Latin expressions with English equivalents. Terms include ad unguem to the finger, de novo from the beginning, errare humanum est to err is human, nobless oblige, and gilded youth.
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Jeunesse Doree
Lusus Naturae
Milnesia Milk of Magnesia Offers Quick Heartburn Relief
The message notes heartburn from hurried meals and excesses and promotes Milnesia as a water form milk of magnesia. It claims relief after indulgence with crunchy wafers and lists prices 20c, 3?¢ and 60c per package.
Danzig Crisis and European War Fears Rise
European nations shift focus from Italo Ethiopian sanctions to the Free City of Danzig seeking independence from the League of Nations. Observers link Greiser and Hitler to Danzig moves while Britain and France ponder responses amid looming Nazi expansion.
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Danzig
Europe
League of Nations
League
Ethiopia
League Assembly
Haile Selassie
Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Nazi Germany
Hitler
Arthur Greiser
Sean Lester
Greiser
Germany
Rhineland
Lester
Danig
Britain
France
July Fourth Celebrations Claim 346 Lives in U S
The Fourth of July toll reaches 346 deaths across the nation. Fireworks cause 22 fatalities, while 293 traffic deaths in 36 states, 90 drownings in 36 states, and other accidents add to the total, the highest since 1931.
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America
Roosevelt and Landon Return to Their Desks
President Roosevelt resumes duties in Washington after a three day trip to Virginia including the Shenandoah National Park dedication and a Monticello address. Governor Landon returns to Topeka for the Kansas legislature convening and the Republican notification speech amid talks on pensions and unemployment insurance.
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Roosevelt
James A. Farley
Washington
Farley
Biltmore Hotel
New York
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Virginia
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Platforms Point to New Party Realignments in 1936
The piece argues both major parties shifted toward new directions after their conventions. It notes Republicans moved to younger leadership and a broader moral tone while Democrats embraced a more radical New Deal stance, easing the two thirds rule and inviting shifts among conservative Democrats. It also discusses isolationist foreign policy tones in both platforms and the Philadelphia convention’s influence.
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Cleveland
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
New Deal
Landon
South
Jeffersonian Party
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson
Western Newspaper Union
Round Ention
Andre Definite Hiladelphia
Rogge
Desperate Measure and Family Banter Joke
On the Funny Side features a short exchange about bathing and cooking. A mother warns her child to avoid a wet bathing suit while a friend jokes about a doctor forbidding cooking due to her husband being ill, delivering light humor.
Short Respite Titus Wadde The Money Question
A man asks advice on stopping his wife from asking for money to buy clothes. Mr. Longwed suggests simply giving her the money.
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Titus Wadde
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Keeping Up With Em Green Chatty Habit
Howarth explains his need to attend talks twice weekly to keep up with his children and understand their speech. The exchange underscores family dynamics and the role of regular public talks in bilingual or intergenerational communication.
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Father weighed only four pounds at birth
A poignant inquiry echoes of a father weighing four pounds at birth and the hopeful, urgent question of whether he survived.
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