Word: citizenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alert U. S. citizen last week could pick from among his fellow citizens as Man of the Year at the close of 1935 whom...
...their various antiquities. It was known, incorrectly, to hasty readers of a popular book, as the Hell-Hole of Creation. Actually the high plateau on which Addis Ababa stands and which comprises about half the Empire is suited in climate to the taste of an ordinary U. S. citizen although the altitude is trying. Rushing rivers criss-cross the plateau with deep gorges. Transportation of fantastic difficulty is enhanced by unimaginable mud in the rainy season, but the obstacles of Nature on the plateau are in every sense susceptible of being overcome...
Evidently sick at heart and discouraged at the unwillingness of the Great Powers to do anything about the unspeakable abuses he has encountered in Germany, U. S. Citizen McDonald cataloged them in Sears Roebuck fashion and resigned. Excoriating the German Government of today for ''crushing" not only Jews but also Protestants, Catholics and whomever else is not quick to toe the Hitler-Goring-Goeb- bels-Streicher-Rosenberg line, Mr. Mc-Donald bitterly concludes that in Germany what now passes for "law" is merely the "whim" of German bigwigs defying world public opinion beneath the swastika...
Hearst, About the time that Gossipmonger Walter Winchell, who made his reputation by predicting the birth of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. four months in advance, was proclaiming himself "ashamed" of being a U. S. citizen, the Press at large concluded that Hero Lindbergh's real Herod was Yellow Journalism...
...apparent defender of the Yellow Press was the Patterson-McCormick tabloid New York Daily News, which cracked: "If the country is going to pot (which we don't think it is), it is not because Lindbergh has left us. A run-out by one harried and frightened prominent citizen does not indicate that the mass of decent people are in danger of being engulfed by the underworld...