Word: discussed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incarnation of virtue, sense of duty and respect for the Constitution. Forty years a Queen, Wilhelmina has been troubled with only 13 Cabinet changes, a record low for continental Europe. She has always tried to associate the people with her personal joys and sorrows, frequently using the radio to discuss affairs of State and Royal Family...
...Jouhaux of the potbelly and off-centre goatee, whose aggressive political unions are a great concern of Premier Edouard Daladier. M. Jouhaux, en route to an international labor conference called by the "John L. Lewis of Mexico," big-eared Vicente Lombardo Toledano, made a pilgrimage to Atlantic City to discuss with Mr. Green (who is boycotting the Mexico City conference as "communistic") the problems of Labor in relation to world peace and war. Not mentioned was the John L. Lewis...
...Jersey's Committeeman J. Parnell Thomas (Rep.), unenthusiastic, declined to discuss Mr. Valenti's charges with newspapermen. What really excited committee members who had gone to investigate in Manhattan, he said, was the Federal Writers Project. "It is," said Investigator Thomas, "a hotbed of communism...
...Bonnie Bell, crawling with roaches and lechers. In the night, dark sedans run round & round the hotel. May Diehl, the committee's case worker, whimpers atop a chair. In another room the teacher, Tom Pettee, strokes the pretty hair of Carol Gillman, an impetuous divorcee. The others discuss tactics. A gang of local "antis" come in, carry out the committee's two leaders, take them to a dark swamp, thrash them unconscious. Then they turn lights and police on their victims. "I swear!" they say. "They have been beating each other up. . . . Goddamn. They want...
Author Zugsmith's characters talk their share of balderdash. They pause in two dullish chapters to discuss martyrdom of left-wing professors and preachers. Nevertheless, their talk has the ring of an uncracked Liberty bell, rich with authentic undertones, strident with neurotic overtones. If Leane Zugsmith s novels have not been monuments, they have been milestones along the U. S. road. This novel, her sixth, indicates that she is still headed in the proper direction, uphill, going places...