Word: comee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crucial Week? All this was small comfort for the Finns, who last week were harder pressed than ever by the Kremlin to come into the Soviet orbit. Finnish Minister to Sweden Juho Paasikivi and Finance Minister Väinö Tanner made another flying trip from Moscow back to Helsinki to lay before their government Dictator Stalin's "final offer." Mr. Tanner had hopes that "we can come to an agreement," reported that Tovarish Stalin had assumed personal charge of the Russian-Finnish negotiations. Negotiator Stalin was "very friendly and cordial" and smoked cigarets endlessly instead of the usual...
Sweden was almost as jittery as Finland. Rumors were rife that Comrade Stalin would soon issue an "invitation" to Swedish negotiators to come to Moscow and talk about mutual assistance pacts and Swedish-Russian naval bases. While the almost fully mobilized Swedish Army trained in earnest, home folk began feverishly to dig huge underground shelters...
...made Teutons fear and Gauls love Sir Eric Phipps was his wit, as dark and quick as sparkling Burgundy. One night while he was in Berlin, Field Marshal Hermann Göring arrived at an Embassy party late and breathless. Bowing deeply, Göring roared: "I have just come from the hunt." Sir Eric examined Göring from head to foot, and drawled: "Animals, I presume...
Early American Ballads (John Jacob Niles, tenor; Victor: 8 sides). A "hillbilly" who knows where his songs come from (he studied at the University of Lyons and at Oxford) croons The Gypsy Laddie and My Little Mohee, twanging a dulcimer the while...
...must come out and claim our rights. We must deserve and get them. The day is past for a hard-of-hearing person to cling to solitude and slink through the world missing half of life because of a false sense of shame. So put on a hearing aid. Wear it with pride, not as a badge of disgrace!" Thus croaked deafened Novelist Rupert Hughes to fellow members of the American Society for the Hard of Hearing who met in Manhattan last week. On his own lapel he proudly wore one of his several electrical hearing aids...