Word: donning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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New pacts with Herr Hitler are not finding a very good market at the present moment. The Scandinavian public is dead set against them. Even when the British a few weeks ago suggested they might guarantee the Scandinavian countries' independence, they showed no enthusiasm. They want neutrality, not pacts...
At the conclusion of the speech, the King and Queen stepped down from the marquee into the open area. The grouped World War Veterans kept their places stiffly for a moment, and then, chanting "We want the King!", surged toward the Royal couple. Guards moved to interfere but the King...
Balletomanes were charmed by the curtain raiser to the Benét-Moore opera. Called Filling Station, it was a fantasy danced by the Ballet Caravan to polished music by Virgil Thomson. This week the American Lyric Theatre presents more ballet and another light opera, Susanna, Don't You...
William Lyon Phelps told a Booksellers Association luncheon: "Let children read a lot of trash. And by tact and sympathy they can be led to read better books. Don't try to stuff books down their throats."
Nicaragua's chunky President Anastasio Somoza, in the U. S. on a canal-selling and sightseeing trip, found a certain drawback to visiting-in-state. Said he: "They do things differently here. . . . In the White House, when I wanted to see my wife, I had to leave my room...