Word: anent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anent Sir Philip Gibbs and "Winkles on Pins" (TiME, Nov. 6, p. 28), does not British tank officer's "dark saying" burst into klieg-light clarity when quoted as ". . . he was the winkle in [not on] the pin if war should ever begin in earnest...
...Russian goods in volume. Foreign diplomats wondered whether these big trade announcements were not calculated: 1) to scare the Allies; 2) to reassure the German people that this time a blockade would not be effective; 3) to persuade doubting Germans that the Russians were, after all, reliable allies. Anent this thesis, the New York Herald Tribune's peripatetic Joseph Barnes, who specializes in listening to streetcar conversations and talking over lively topics with hundreds of Germans in all walks of life, reported...
...Anent your statement ". . . his [Lindbergh's] father, who died in 1933" [TIME, Sept. 25], I well remember that Charles Jr., an up-and-coming aviator, flew over the Lindbergh homestead and dropped his father's ashes several years before he made his well known solo flight to Paris...
...Anent Adolf Hitler's repeated assertions that he would not take any more European countries under his vulture's wing, and his repeated breaking of his word, how about the following transposition of the letters in his name...
...Again anent the New Zealand egg story: Ewell Shields wishes to know what manner of man can be quiet enough, long enough, to hatch an egg by body warmth (TIME...