Word: armsful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like their elders, whose passions and opinions they reflected, the young men of the U. S. were bewildered by war, undecided how they should react to it. In their campus newspapers they brooded on such problems as encirclement and invasion, debated how the U. S. might be kept neutral. One...
The Harvard Crimson, under Blair Clark's supervision took its stand with one leg solidly behind the Allies: "The best chance of our remaining neutral is the success of Allied arms." But in the next breath the Crimson added: "Americans wishing to remain neutral must make a new resolve...
Freely mentioned as the inspiration for the crackpot playboy is four-times married, asbestos-protected Tommy Manville. After witnessing the opening performance of See My Lawyer, Manville went on to a nightclub. There, reported spry Columnist Leonard Lyons, Manville encountered Actor Nugent, and putting his arms around Nugent's...
Alternately the market went to pieces on headlines about 1) peace, and 2) Congressional embargoes remaining in force; went through the roof on headlines about i) long war, and 2) Congressional repeal of the arms embargo. But the net result of all this switching back & forth between war & peace got...
HELSINGFORS, Finland--Finland today called up additional reservists, reinforcing 140,000 troops already under arms, and warned that Soviet Russia must recognize Finland as an "equal party" in any political and economic negotiations.