Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond has always been a sensitive soul, disliking abrupt contrasts. The annual transition from vacation to college jars his equilibrium, and the divine aflatus is wanting. Besides, when one has to come a week in advance, and dwell in the midst of the desert that is Harvard before registration . . . . The rising splendor of Memorial Chapel, and Eliot House blossoming forth with its new shrubbery, are not enough. The great days are still vivid, and what is to come is yet unsure. The Vagabond greets his clan, and asks their indulgence for another day. Perhaps the spectacle of the incoming Freshmen...
...Rome last week Signer Achille Starace, abrupt Secretary General of the Fascist Party, ordered that "to maintain the dignity of Fascist customs" the Official shout will no longer be given "except when saluting II Duce." Lesser Fascist leaders will receive silent salutes, out-stretchings of the right arm at an upward inclination...
...Presidential decrees drafted and administered by Herr von Hindenburg's hand-picked protégé, Chancellor Heinrich Brüning. He, a pale, ascetic, tremendously hard-working bachelor soon won greater world esteem than any German diplomat since the late, great Dr. Stresemann. Throughout Germany last week the President's abrupt act in kicking his protege back into obscurity produced an impression never before associated with the name of HINDENBURG?symbol of Loyalty and Duty...
...autonomous" under the "protection" of the League of Nations. About the time Japan began flouting the League (TIME, Feb. 8) Poland moved quietly to get a man of her choice, Dr. Casimir Pappee, appointed High Commissioner of Danzig. Last week he took office, startled the Free City by this abrupt, Japanesque pronouncement...
Austria and Hungary are admittedly hardest pressed. In Vienna last week the Governor of the Bank of Austria, Van-dyke-bearded Dr. Richard Reisch, took abrupt and super-miserly steps to keep not only Austrian money but Austrians at home...