Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the broad Neutrality debates were finished last month, Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee asked the State Department whether an embargo on U. S. war materials for Japan would violate the treaty of commerce and navigation which has bound the U. S. and Japan since 1911. The State Department said yes, whereupon alert Republican Senator Vandenberg, well aware of popular sentiment against continued winking at Japan's war in China (and war against Occidental interests there) offered a resolution to denounce that treaty, giving six months' notice as provided in its articles. After...
...classroom English is a kind of dead language, derived chiefly from British literary traditions. Outside the classroom door students have lapsed naturally into their native American, which has a vocabulary as broad as the country, as exact and complex as U. S. technology, from which it draws many terms. To close the breach between classroom English and spoken American, two works had appeared last week in time for inclusion among next year's textbooks...
...broad roadway between the Imperial Palace and the British Embassy at Tokyo one day last week was choked with a milling, sweating mob, shouting, singing and waving anti-British banners. After giving the loudest and unfunniest anti-foreign demonstration in Tokyo's history, the leaders, members of the ultranationalist, pro-Axis Black Dragon Society, led the procession to a military shrine. Two hours later the leaders were back to do it all over again for newsreel photographers. When the demonstrators finally dispersed they left a wreath on the Embassy's gate with the inscription: BRITAIN IS DEAD...
...make peace. The union replied with a suggestion that Editor Smith print the facts or mind his own business. Editor Smith countered with the announcement that "the Chronicle makes it its business to stick its nose into any so-called private row which affects the broad public interest." The union snapped back: "That being the case, we ask you to serve as mediator." Paul Smith did, and settled the strike...
Prodigiously built (he was six feet four), prodigiously dressed (in black suit, broad black hat and flowing black Windsor tie), a prodigious writer, talker, fighter and drinker, Pitchfork Smith worshipped at the shrine of one man and one man only: William Cowper Brann (the Iconoclast). Once, on Brann's birthday, his disciple got drunk, visited his grave at Waco, and sat there all night communing with the soul of his friend, for every drink he took himself pouring an equal amount of whiskey...