Word: disturber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hear that the House of Lords engages in debate on ways and means of abolishing slavery in India. "Tis wonderous, and happy too, that such ideas meet so little favor on these shores. King of England regrets that the civil war against the Queen in Spain goes on to disturb the general tranquility of Europe. Thought aloud and said that something will have to be done about Spain. To which Enoch replied laughing that something will ALWAYS have to be done about Spain...
...question about Shirley Temple which seems to disturb people most persistently is whether she is "spoiled" or "unspoiled" by her life in the cinema. She is "unspoiled." This does not prevent her from being fresh. When, preparatory to meeting H. G. Wells, she was informed that he was the most important man in the universe, she chirped: "Oh no, he's not! God is the most important and Governor Merriam's second." In Palm Springs she showed General Pershing her autograph book and asked him whether he knew the Hollywood notables whose names were in it. On learning...
...collected 44,952,937 fresh pieces of paper purporting to show that 99% of German voters approve his three great steps toward FREEDOM AND PEACE. That these three steps had rashly violated Germany's most solemn treaty obligations and had thereby unbalanced the peace of Europe seemed to disturb no one inside the Fatherland. Once again Germany had a real Army, with more than half a million men cocked and primed to strike at a minute's notice. Once again a tough, hard-hitting German Navy was in the making. Once again the Rhineland, sacred soil to every...
...fact that it was Midge Van Ryn's first tournament on boards did not disturb her in the least. With characteristic coolness she romped through to the final without losing a set. Then she met Norma Taubele, No. 12 in national ranking, 1934 indoor titleholder. By softball tactics and a deceptive chop stroke, Mrs. Van Ryn braked her opponent's speed. It took her only 45 minutes to put Miss Taubele into submission...
First to congratulate Prizewinner Landis was Harvard's Physiologist Walter Bradford Cannon. Dr. Cannon voluntarily gave Christian Scientists scientific grounds for their dogma by demonstrating, first, that fear and anger disturb digestion, later that an unhappy mind may cause many kinds of bodily disorders. In Detroit last week Dr. Cannon retold his researches, advised physicians "to recognize the part which [mental healers] undoubtedly play in restoring the morale of the depressed and the anxious...