Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policy of bending like a reed before the Nazi storm, then snapping back with General Syrovy like a whalebone, President Benes meanwhile attracted some aid from the ever-cautious Soviet Dictator. For once, Joseph Stalin, ordinarily content to leave Russian foreign policy largely to Maxim Litvinoff, who was at Geneva all week (see p. 16), suddenly bestirred himself in Moscow. The Soviet press was not permitted to announce the fact, but the Kremlin flashed to Warsaw a drastic threat that, if Poland should invade Czechoslovakia, Russia would at once denounce her 1932 Treaty of Non-Aggression with Poland and "march...
...simply stated. Cambridge and Oxford are the only two British universities with whopping endowments to provide the equipment necessary to attract distinguished researchers from outside. Although Oxford is getting a fine new post-graduate medical school and already has a world-famed low-temperature laboratory, it has otherwise been content to leave Cambridge a clear field for leadership in science. Oxford's angel is Lord Nuffield, automobile maker. Cambridge's No. 1 benefactor in recent years is another motor-maker, Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin, who, now 71, made his first car in 1895, competes with Nuffield...
...content with the protection of his cryptic shorthand when he confided his amours to his diary, Pepys added further screens by making up a pidgin language of French, Spanish and Latin, with toy words and a freakish kind of lustful baby talk. "She would not suffer that je should poner my mano above ses jupes which je endeavoured," he wrote of one modest soul. But although Librarian Turner transcribed such passages, Pepys's secrets are still reasonably safe 270 years after the night Mrs. Pepys caught him with the charming Deb Willet. Talking things over with publishers and college...
Dealing with the story of early New Amsterdam life as seen through the eyes of Washington Irving, "Knickerbocker Holiday" is delightful only so long as the author contents himself with a certain ingratiating naivete; unfortunately Mr. Anderson was not content to leave the pleasant subtlety of his first act as the underlying essence of the whole production. Evidently he did not think his audience would enjoy drawing their own parallel between the pleasantly autocratic regime of Peter Stuyvesant and the government of today; before the comedy has run its course, the simile becomes more and more obvious...
...Instead of the old style Negro lobbyist content to work behind the scenes, U.S. Negroes now have a Washington representative as bold, adroit and effective as any of the white breed. He is Secretary Walter Francis White of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Last January the blacks' Mr. White sat in the Senate visitors' gallery, where Southern members indignantly pointed at him during debate on the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill. Lobbyist White claimed to have bagged enough votes to get the bill passed, but a hastily organized Southern filibuster kept it from...