Word: castor
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...Castor has been watching with some trepidation the pre-natal career of the Federal Housing Plan, that incautious boast of the Interior Department, but now that the midwives have ceased their incantations it seems a pretty sorry infant after all. When we heard that Secretary Ickes, having ascertained that 200,000 professional coal miners would be superfluous in the future, had decided upon drastic action, we naturally wondered on whose head the axe would fall, but the coal producers talked their way out of it, and left only the landlords in candidacy. The awful blow has come; the government proposes...
...counter habit of answering repeatedly and loudly: "Self-evident!" This tactic irritated one judge very much and he interrupted one day to tell Dimitroff: "Anyone would think you believed this court was trying to waste its time and yours with irrelevant questions!" Dimitroff rose quickly and shouted: "Self-evident!" CASTOR...
...Austrian and German, even more, and have announced their readiness to proclaim a general strike, or at the worst, civil war, if any Nazi putsch is attempted. It would be odd indeed, though not improbable, if the Little Napoleon were kept in power by the party he so despises. CASTOR...
...others, survived two revolutions and awaits a third. But to survive he has had to cut himself loose from the mentality of the epoch in which he made his name known; his companion passed civilly away in the dull garb of progressivism; he outlived them to become a communist. CASTOR...
...returned to their prison camps for life. To say that this is postfacto and the sentence unjust, may be right but it will not affect the court's decision. The Nazis don't dare to back down; and the alternatives are, as Pollux termed it succinctly, disgusting. Castor...