Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arab nationalism back to 1847, and attributing its early beginnings largely to the influence of U. S. missionaries in Syria, who brought printing presses and organized Arab clubs, Author Antonius insists that Arab nationalism has now become essentially a matter of self-preservation. Admitting that nothing but harm can come out of the terror now raging in Palestine, he insists that physical violence by the Arab is the "inevitable corollary of the moral violence" done the Arab, that Arab terrorism in Palestine does not need German or Italian propaganda to foster...
...story seemed sound enough, but in its time We, the People has been hoaxed roundly, mostly before Young & Rubican now the producers, set up their elaborate checking system. Scooty was a Scotti dog, wrote a lady from Elgin, Ill., which she had come upon accompanying a tin cripple named Tim, hobbling toward Philadelphia to stay with a hardhearted aunt who didn't like dogs. The woman wrote that she had taken the dog, promising to give him a good home. Now Scooty knew a few tricks, and she was sure the aunt would let tiny Tim take him back...
...Ridge, Jasper, Tenn. Down Jasper way, she wrote, she was considered quite a character. She'd mid-wived most of the young'uns in her time and had helped lay out most of the dead ones, too. Never been away from home but wanted like everything to come to New York, particularly to say a word or two over the radio in behalf of fat people. Her fat son had been taking a lot of joshing-people used to say that when the circus came to town they couldn't see a thing if he got there...
...critics, opening night means running, sometimes before the show is over, back to their typewriters. For authors, after squirming in a seat at the rear of the house or wandering backstage with a brandy bottle, it means keeping a death watch until 4 a.m., when the papers come...
...Correspondent Kluckhohn returned to Mexico City from St. Louis, where his first child had been born, he called on the Department of Publicity and Propaganda for comment on a report that Mexico was trying to sell bartered German goods to other Latin American countries. Mr. Kluckhohn was told to come back in an hour. When he went back, accompanied by a U. P. man who was after the same story, he was told to wait while the U. P. man was called upstairs. When Kluckhohn tired of waiting, he started to leave. Two guards grabbed him, hustled...