Word: aloft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the leader to the rafters. Grim Fascist squad leaders shinnied up the roof supports and led their blackshirts in a crawling advance along the beams. Since a fight in mid-air would mean scores of falling bodies, the audience leaped up in panic. Sir Oswald bellowed: "Black Shirts aloft-attention! I want no fighting under the roof...
Perspiring with relief, Fascist squad leaders aloft called a truce with the antiFascists and all crawled to safety. By this time half the audience had fled. Jews considered that Sir Oswald in the windup of his speech touched a new high in British antiSemitism. He twitted the Conservative Party for "following the ideals of Disraeli, an Italian Jew,''- lambasted British Socialists (i. e. Laborites) for their "loyalty to Karl Marx, a German Jew" and polished off the Liberal Party by referring sarcastically to one of its Jewish leaders as "that staunch John Bull, Sir Herbert Samuel!" "Down with...
...Catholic schoolchildren to chant the music of the mass. And on the hot, hard benches sat the rest of the 100,000. A bugler sounded "Attention"' at the Sanctus, Consecration and Communion, and two French 75's boomed on a nearby hill when Archbishop Curley held aloft the consecrated particle...
...presented the President with a check 3 ft. long by 18 in. wide, for $1,003,030.08 - receipts for the President's "birthday balls" last January. The amount was half a million dollars smaller than Warm Springs had confidently hoped for but the President waved the check triumphantly aloft, before handing it to Trustee Arthur Carpenter. "Just for five or ten seconds, Carp," said the President, "I wouldn't trust you longer with it. No danger was there of defalcation, however. The check was never meant to be honored, merely to be framed and hung in Georgia Hall...
...Japanese juggler in any U. S. circus was last week keeping aloft a variety of balls, plates and fiery sticks more dexterously than Koki Hirota, Japan's Foreign Minister. In Britain President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman could devote his entire time to the trade war he had declared against Japan. In Geneva a League of Nations strategy board could concentrate on a proper reply to the Japanese charge of League interference in China, in Nanking the Foreign Office could give its undivided attention to the new Japanese doctrine of a moral protectorate over China...