Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breadth of view in this beginner's handbook that is breath-taking. Among the methods of seduction that are listed, the familiar "Feel My Muscle" approach, the plaintive. "An Ugly Old Thing Like Me" style, and the moss-backed "Everybody Does It" argument illustrate sufficient diversity to command the tyro's respect. The author handles these three outline cases with a facile calm surpassing the pure human. In returning the book to one's desk after the three hours it takes to read it from cover to cover, the first reaction should be a feeling of gratitude to Miss Hahn...
Again like most of the subjects by whom he is so well beloved, His Majesty did not hasten with any anxious eagerness to Hamlet. Indeed, he did not go at all. But graciously the King-Emperor set May 19 as the date for a "Command Performance" of Hamlet, announced that Their Majesties will attend "if possible...
...broke he had a hard time getting back to Russia, was interned "in a prison camp in Canada for a month. Triumphant was his arrival in Petrograd. He was made People's Commissar for foreign affairs; when Kerensky fell and Lenin came into power Trotsky was second in command. Lenin died at the height of his popularity, and Death canonized him. But Trotsky lived on, and Trotskyism (doctrine of "permanent revolution") grew more & more out of fashion. In January 1928, Trotsky and his followers, hopelessly in the minority, were ordered into exile in Central Asia. From there a year...
...Manhattan he announced that he will put down any violent celebration of May Day by Reds. "If there's going to be any Queen of the May in this town," snapped Mr. Whalen, "it will be me ? not Mr. William Z. Foster.* Law and order will be in command, not Red hooliganism...
...made an offer to exchange one share of United for three and one-half of NAT stock. This offer was quickly, flatly rejected (TIME, April 14). To the Curtiss-Keys group, active as such in aviation since 1920, United Aircraft seemed a shade Napoleonic.* While denying any desire to command the industry, Curtiss-Keys, with 13 companies, backed by Banc-america Blair Corp., was recognized as the No. I group of U. S. aviation; United Aircraft as the contender...