Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in France where the Press normally enjoys a freedom approximating liberty to libel and tempered only by the readiness of its editors to shut up if offered adequate bribes, the Government leaned over backward in solicitude for the feelings of Adolf Hitler. The Sarraut Cabinet drew a storm of French abuse upon itself by ordering gendarmes to raid the offices of Paris' potent Le Journal and seize all copies of its Sunday feature-smash entitled ''Hitler's Secret Loves'" as well as the German research material upon which this was based...
...seconded the measure. It was passed instantly. When Republicans began to guffaw at the blind liberality of the majority, a shrewd Democratic Senator moved to reconsider the bill, had it referred to a committee for study. Only study necessary was to read the machine-gun sergeant's name backward...
...front cover & pictures, pp. 24 & 25) Backward, flat-faced Mongols were last week suddenly up in arms and out with up-to-date battle planes, spitting Death...
Perhaps Hanfy should not have been sent the letter, but it is silly to claim that he acted in good faith. He leaned so far backward in his answer to President Conant that he betrayed himself by his innocence. It was a choice between crucifying him on his own cross or biting on his line; and when Harvard wants to be a sucker, she can probably find a less obvious line to bite on. Arthur M. Rosenbloom...
...Isaac Magnin gave up carving at an early date, took a hand in the store's finances, but by the century's turn he had lost interest in the business. A linguist and amateur philosopher who quoted continually from Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward), he used to pedal his bicycle around & around Golden Gate Park, pockets crammed with Marxian tracts and pamphlets. Before he died in 1907 Mary...