Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constantly subject to pressure by members of his Conservative Party (including Cabinet members) to whom Hitler was a "guardian of capitalism" and to whom any alliance with Soviet Russia was anathema. They professed to be impressed by accounts of German air superiority, stressed the purely defensive value of French fortifications, discounted Soviet military power, the French Army's will to fight. They said nothing about the well-trained Czech Army, Britain's undisputed control of the seas, the unfinished condition of Germany's defenses, German insufficiency in raw materials, German internal discontent, the German Army...
...through to the Lindberghs. Now we are in the process of working up a hate for a citizen we have already badgered almost beyond human endurance, the son, curiously enough, of Representative Lindbergh! Jewish hate directed against Charles A. Lindbergh will probably have its way until his name is anathema- simply because, like his father, he refuses to be stampeded by our chuckle-headedness...
...years, and his other accomplishments (listed by himself in his "congressional Record" autobiography) include the Stage Commandership of the American Legion in 1922, and the fact that he is bachelor, residing with his mother." The recently-defeated Governor Murphy of Michigan, known as the friend of the C.I.O. is anathema to the conservative wing of the Democratic party, which recently gained the upper hand, and his appointment would serve notice of an open split of the Democrats into two angry camps...
Irving B. Rosenberg '39, treasurer of the club, declared that cheap publicity was anathema to the secretive group. The whole concept, according to him, grew first as a joke when one boy was jilted, but increasing fatalities due to summer romances made the club a serious undertaking...
...still carries many of the pixilated mannerisms of his performance in "Brother Rat" along with him; Eddie Albert, the twin brother, is adequate and best when singing; Teddy Hart and Jimmy Save pall occasionally, but theirs is the hardest assignment, and that they are less of an anathema than they are is a minor triumph. Top honors in the cast must go to the female sex; Wynn Murray, as Luce, is grand both in her songs and in her interpretation of comedy; Mary Wescott, as Luciana, is likeable though her voice is a bit thin compared to the others; supreme...