Word: actually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany's fleet plowed past the cliffs of Dover (see p. 23), Benito Mussolini called Franklin Roosevelt a Messianic meddler and Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a convivial vociferator* (see p. 26), but still there was no actual fighting in Europe last week. Meanwhile the U. S. people continued the process of making up their collective mind about War (how to provide against its coming) and Peace (how to preserve it). The process consisted, as it must in a democracy, of sound-offs hither & yon, pro & con. Most notable...
...Chairman Ernest Tener Weir of National Steel Corp. said: "Let us as a people keep our heads. Let us guard particularly against anybody sweeping us into war hysteria. For war, more than anything else, holds danger of actual dictatorship for America...
These bonds, plus $12,000,000 in pre-fair revenues, represents the actual stake of the corporation in the venture. On this promotional outlay, much of which is likely to be recovered, the businessmen of New York may well reap a good return...
Captain Hornblower has no actual prototype, though he somewhat resembles Admiral Nelson. A tall, slightly paunchy sea dog with thinning hair, Hornblower is a highstrung, self-doubting man who gets seasick at the start of a cruise, worries about losing his job, goes clammy at the start of a fight, pales at the sight of blood, has the devil's own time keeping his reputation for imperturbability...
...Mason apparently has two goals in his book, the first of which is to give the atmospheric background of the War, both in the United States, and in the field of military operations; and the second to give an interesting account of the actual operations and personalities of the War. The first six chapters give the reader a fairly compelling description of the temper of the period preceding the conflict, employing the well-worn system of correlating diverse events throughout the country to show the styles, manners, opinions, interests of the American people. But after Mr. Mason gets his reader...