Word: assailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stifling its theatrical ventures at the start through making them chauvinist messengers of the New Deal. So frank, if not profound, is the discussion of contemporary disorders, that the sponsors of the play have had to disclaim its points of view. But "Class of '19 does not assail capitalism; Rooseveltism, assumed in this play, dispite Hearst, to be capitalistic; or even Americanism as defended by that staunch old patriot...
...outsider could thus assail even Huey Pierce Long in his Senatorial capacity without causing the entire Senate to rise in wrath and smite the attacker down. Senator Tydings framed his reply in John Nance Garner's office, with the Vice President and Majority Leader Robinson standing by, many a Senator dropping in to offer aid and encouragement. Excerpts...
...independence. They have never yielded to subjection and have checked all attacks on their borders. Italy has tried to conquer the land three times, but every time they have been beaten back by the brave people, and now it looks as though again an attempt is being made to assail the free land which is a member of the League of Nations. When leaving Abyssinia the young physician was not allowed to proceed north through Sudan on account of difficulties at the border. The Italians had in fact forced their way several miles into the country and the inhabitants were...
...weeks cures the disease in most people. Such a cure, however, does not give immunity against new malarial infections. Some cases are never cured although they may be latent for years. The reason for relapse is obscure. Specialists guess that the malarial parasite acquires a form which quinine cannot assail until some accident of ill health intervenes...
...heavyweight championship despite poor fights against Champion Max Schmeling and Middleweight Mickey Walker. Eight days before the fight, Sharkey inspected his left hand, discovered that his third and little fingers were slightly swollen at the knuckle. Convinced that such a hand was no fit instrument with which to assail the long lantern jaw of Primo Carnera, Sharkey called in four doctors to attest his injury, demanded a postponement. The postponement was first denied, then granted, to Oct. 12. To disappointed Monster Carnera, deprived of his first real chance to prove the much-ridiculed contention of his manager, Leon See, that...