Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austrian coup has set a new tone for the German minority. Under present circumstances Konrad Henlein's demands will tend to be unacceptable. Thus conflict in Czechoslovakia will become latent. The 'liberator' can then be called in the moment expert timing makes such a move possible," added the author of "Government in the Third Reich...
Less substantial but funnier, Daughters and Sons varies the conventional family novel by concentrating three squabbling generations under one roof. The Ponsonbys consist of a hard-bitten old grandmother, her bludgeoning spinster daughter, her son (a popular author on the down grade), his five children. Isolated in a big country house, the Ponsonby children while away their leisure making dirty cracks about each other, unite in making dirty cracks about their grandmother, who repays them with interest. All hands join in deviling the succession of governesses. For awhile it looks as though they have met their match when one ruthlessly...
...last half of Beals's autobiography describes a three-year tour of Europe, his relations with Ambassador Morrow, the breaking off of Mexican-Soviet relations, challenges the truth of many a story told by Author Beals's fellow journalists. Typical is his version of how it happened that the Nicaraguan rebel Sandino was equipped with Russian rifles. They were manufactured, says Beals, in the U. S. for Kerensky, whose government fell before they could be shipped. The rifles were then shipped to Calles, who sent them on to Sandino merely as a spiteful...
Born Barney Isaacs in London's Whitechapel, Barnato became a juggler, comedian, boxer, diamond merchant and eventually financial master of the South African mining fields. He was first a rival and then an ally of the imperious, imperialistic Cecil Rhodes. Author Lewinsohn's account makes Barnato out a kindly, comical, shrewd, enterprising fellow whose great achievement was amalgamating scattered mines and who was overshadowed as soon as Rhodes appeared with his bold political adventures and schemes for establishing a diamond monopoly. Sometimes Barnato's democratic traits popped out unexpectedly (when a society lady asked...
...Lopez' great claim to distinction was his love for Eliza Alicia Lynch. Eliza was a needle-witted Irish girl of uncertain background who became his mistress in Paris, bore him four sons, and was charged by his enemies with having egged him on to his worst atrocities. Although Author Barrett works hard to make her a glamorous figure, he seems to be fighting against odds almost as great as those that destroyed Lopez. To her credit he emphasizes that she was devoted to the dictator, followed him to battle, and buried him at last. But when they consider what...