Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abroad. Said he: '"We cannot escape part in it if war comes to Europe.' Why does this thought persist and grow . . .? Norway, Sweden,Denmark, Holland, Switzerland and Spain stayed out of the last war. There were 55,000,000 people living in democracies at the very door of the war in Europe. If they could stay out . . . why must we even lend ourselves to the thought that we cannot stay out? . . ." Gerald Nye did not give his opinion of the former stay-outers' chances of staying out next time...
...Bruce Hopper '17, associate professor of Government, who attended Montana University with him, the veteran newspaperman spoke to a near capacity crowd in Harvard 1 and conducted a short forum afterwards. He began by attacking isolationism, likening it to a refusal to acknowledge the existence of small pox next door. "The present decay of world order amounts to ruination without representation," he said, citing the failure of diplomacy, the League, and armaments to solve international disputes...
...under his skin. The pushing mob didn't satisfy his desire for companionship, and of course, neither did Billy. It was spring, and his fancies had turned to where they usually did at that time of year. As he handed the tickets to the scarlet-clad Cossack at the door, he was complaining to himself, "This is no job for a college man, and why can't the kid's nurse take him, anyway?" He had just decided that he was bored with it all, when he missed Billy...
William K. Howard (Fire Over England). Director Howard (on a profit-sharing basis) wrote the original story, produced and directed Back Door to Heaven, laid it in his home town of St. Mary's, Ohio, at the last moment smeared himself with grease and enacted the part of the prosecuting attorney who sends Frankie to the chair. Such versatility caused Director Howard's friends at Manhattan's Stork Club, whose major-domo Jack Entratter got a policeman's part in the picture, to refer to him as "Noel Howard." Back Door to Heaven being what...
...unable to organize their work well must be inferior to the "cram-school" instructional staff which is able to put the organization over. If such superiority were real it would seem incredible that the University Corporation should have ignored such talent sitting, as it were, on their very door step, while hiring the alleged incompetents. The argument, therefore, is ridiculous...