Word: belts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significant to Author Hendrick is the fact that the South's Civil War statesmen represented the "new men" of the cotton belt, not the aristocracy of the Old South. Jeff Davis was born in a log cabin 120 miles from Lincoln's slightly smaller birthplace. Vice President Stephens got his start as a "corn dropper" on his father's small farm. Secretary of the Treasury Memminger, born in Germany, was brought up in a Charleston orphanage. Secretary of the Navy Mallory helped his mother in a Florida boardinghouse. Secretary of State Benjamin...
...referring to your brief but brutal description of Ted Malone (TIME, Oct. 30). I admit his hair is thinning in front, but you scarcely notice it because of his gray-blue eyes that twinkle one minute, go dreamy the next. I admit, too, that if he could shorten his belt a couple of inches he'd look as young as he is instead of older. But personality plus and a million-dollar-smile make the belt line unimportant...
...King Ludwig of Bavaria (Wagner's patron), who reared and reeled in the costume of Lohengrin. Before him, like something sired by George White out of Krafft-Ebing, pranced a bleached Venus (Nini Theilade), a hoop-pantalooned Lola Montez (Ludwig's grandfather's mistress) with a belt of false teeth, Mr. and Mrs. Sacher Masoch in riding breeches, and enough assorted subconscious erotica to strain the limbo of an experienced psychopath. Meanwhile, at one side of the stage, a moribund, vine-sprouting faun in red tights concentrated on knitting a sock with three-foot knitting needles...
...Chile announced that submarines as well as surface warcraft could find haven in her ports. Off Brazil, well within the unbuckled "safety belt" projected by the U. S. and her sister republics three weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 9), British and French cruisers last week continued to look out for German or contraband shipping...
...Tight Belt. That Italy wants peace quickly and badly cannot be doubted. Her neutrality is so precarious that the Führer's "last" chance for peace may also be Italy's last chance to maintain neutrality. Economically the country is in no condition to endure the belt-tightening that all European neutrals must undergo these days. Her typical products are not those that warring nations might buy. Her supply of raw materials is limited. Far from self-sufficient, what little peacetime trade Italy had is likely to dry up to the point where she can no longer...