Word: backhandedness
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Vienna's Archbishop was bewildered, and no wonder. After Anschluss he had attempted to temporize with Nazis, had been given the backhanded accolade of "a reasonable man" by the pagan Nazi ideologist, Dr. Alfred Rosenberg. Suddenly, last fortnight, Cardinal Innitzer's palace was sacked by an obviously stage...
In a backhanded reference to the present "purge" in the Soviet fighting services (see col, 3), the eleven accusers wrote: "Soviet aviation, according to Lindbergh, has been left without leadership and is now in a condition of chaos. It is hardly necessary to deny such an obvious lie. . . . Lindbergh performed...
Everywhere food was still plentiful in the land, much more so than in Germany, and there was no break in the amazing Czech morale, which endured nearly 400 years of oppression under Habsburg masters. With backhanded cheerfulness, the Narodni Listy reminded its readers: ''The history of the Czechs...
Woodhull scored the first goal of the game at 1:53 of the second period on a perfect pass from Fraker who had carried deep into Crimson territory. a moment later Harding miraculously picked up Emerson's long diagonal pass at the Tiger line and backhanded the disk past Coleman...
¶ Gene Sarazen: the $10,000 Chicago Open; 290 to 291 for Harry Cooper, Horton Smith and Ky Laffoon, over the Medinah Country Club course; at Chicago. Also entered but not among the 86 who qualified for the last day's play were: prodigious u-year-old Donald Dunkelberger...