Word: donning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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No, I don't agree with Reader Smith that we should strive to give Mr. Hitler generations of free advertising by incorporating his name into our language. . . . It seems to me that the suggested word "hitler" savors too much of yielding, because of temporary emotion, to the childish impulse...
"Don't you remember, Dad," he said, "how deep were our feelings, when we heard our radio first news of the war? It is our destiny, it is each of us who is concerned-you said presently-it is the survival of our civilisation that is at stake, and...
"Shut up, son," I said. "Don't you see you are committing the very sin of quick generalisation that is incensing you so much just now? Beware, as injustice always begets injustice. . . ."
* llinois became the 13th State to have compulsory jury service for women; 12 States, Alaska and the District of Columbia permit them to serve but don't make it mandatory; 23 States still maintain the jury in masculine purity.
Asked in a Los Angeles interview why opera had never been cinemadapted, well-fed Kirsten Flagstad replied: "We opera singers don't look very well. We would not look nice in close-ups."