Word: doff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What moved Joe Stalin and his Earl Browder to doff their democratic whiskers was the Russo-German pact and the consequent reaction against the U. S. S. R., in which Franklin Roosevelt shared last week (see p. 15). The Browder speech last week was the first realistic thing which he and his party have done since the Stalin & Hitler marriage of convenience. But Browder and friends, free again to take up their old cries of international class war, down-with-capitalism, etc., were not in an altogether happy position. To portray Joseph Stalin's totalitarian regime as the flower...
...been placed in U. S. graduate and professional schools, ten others had jobs. Nineteen, with permission from their parents and the U. S. State Department, kept their Rhodes scholarships, stayed on at Oxford. There they cut more lectures than ever, carried stretchers and sandbagged buildings, saw dons doff their black robes for titles such as "staff member of the Ministry of Economic Warfare." Two scholars, H. K. Smith and J. F. Golay, soon went up to London to take temporary jobs with the United Press...
...Romeo, Romeo! . . . 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy. What's in a name? That which we call a rose be any other name would small as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, retain that dear perfection which he owes without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, and for thy name, which is no part of thee, take all myself...
...this book about a missionary's wife as if it were a novel, but readers soon guessed she was telling the thinly disguised story of her mother's life. Few readers will prefer The Exile to Pearl Buck's better books, but most onetime children will doff their hats before this votive offering to a mother's memory...
Where did you get your political information that Senator Robinson would have to doff his cutaway and hump himself to be re-elected in Arkansas in 1936 [TIME, July...