Word: demure
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since it would take a unanimous Council vote to expel Russia, China's one vote alone would therefore block such action. Other nations with Council seats who are within gunshot of the Red Army were also likely to demur, notably Iran, Latvia and Turkey, to say nothing of the Scandinavian countries. Anti-Soviet zeal, in fact, could last week be directly gauged by the distance of nations from the Soviet border. British and French delegates, who generally stage-manage League proceedings, declared themselves ready to support expulsion provided other nations wanted...
...denounced Jews; 2) declared that the next war would be fought for their benefit; 3) rasped at Franklin Roosevelt for putting Felix Frankfurter on the U. S. Supreme Court; 4) predicted that the U. S. Army would "demur" if ordered by a leftist Administration "to execute orders which violate all American tradition"; 5) suggested that patrioteers be deputized and trained to handle "emergencies." Strongest Moseley statement: Fascism and Naziism are good "antitoxins" for the U. S.; "in fact, the finest type of Americanism can breed under their protection as they neutralize the efforts of the Communists...
Belisle, who was President of the CRIMSON in 1931, begins his letter by saying that "Harvard should accept without demur" the City Council's proposal for a separate municipality...
...segregated from the other two. Cloistered shows many a calm, luminous face, including that of the plump, masterful Mother Superior. Accompanied by adroitly "dubbed" dialog, church music and a commentary by a U. S. priest named Rev. Matthew Kelly, the picture presents no conflict, reaches no climax, accepts without demur the phenomenon of women adopting a medieval mode of life to become mystical brides of Christ. Much of Cloistered was filmed in a churchly murk illumined with twinkling candles and rare shafts of sunlight. Arresting shots: nuns wielding pickaxes, laying bricks, pecking typewriters, operating a printing press; penitents sewing under...