Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cannon on the courthouse lawn; a mail-order catalog soldier-with-bayonet in every public park; red paper poppies for sale in the streets; yearly "Conventions" with men in uniforms bowling down Main Street, slapping each other on the back, singing rowdy songs, drunk at the intersection trying to direct traffic with a cardboard whistle. Later, war movies, R. O. T. C. parades, University Gothic towers with memorial plaques, billboards plastered with legless, headless portraits labeled "The Horror of It." June 1935 at last and graduation, and even then commencement speakers shouting "Stand up for peace!" while newspapers bellowed...
This served notice on Germans that direct-action party zealots like Jew-baiting Boss Julius Streicher of Nürnberg emphatically enjoy the Realmleader's confidence and may be expected to take German law more & more into their own hands. At their final meeting last week Herr Streicher appeared exhilarated, Herr Hitler tired...
...mast climbed the flag of Poland. With her Diesel engines smoothly turning, the Dictator's namesake sailed forth on her maiden voyage to Manhattan, will provide U.S. citizens for the first time with a 100% modern liner on which they and their motor cars can sail direct to Poland in 87 days with Tourist as the top class ($168.50, exclusive of automobile...
...competitions train candidates to be executives. Managers must be able to handle large sums of money, direct all the activities of their teams, and to guide their subordinates. Those who succeed find upon graduation that employers give them the respect that they have not had in College. Thus the Freshman football managerial competition which opens this afternoon should not be slighted on the grounds that it may not be worthwhile...
...manhood. You guide the youths who in their turn inherit the position of leadership. It is up to you to keep in touch with these students--to know what they do and what they think. They have their own particular tendencies and the smart man is he who can direct the natural force and not curb nor oppose it. But first he must understand the students...