Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...philosophy appears generously interspersed with his more general contemplations. His theory of the significance of Time and the possibilities of immortality, his pipe-dream of a pseudo-socialistic Utopia, his defense of the arts, all arouse us to thoughts which perhaps had never before crossed our mind. We find ourselves constantly looking away from the printed page, staring into space to work out in our own mind the meaning and value of his words. And, strangely enough, we are more than half the time in agreement with...
...troops clamoring for return favors. Another powder barrel may be put in the magazine of Europe. The alternative is an armistice while the outcome of the war is still in doubt, and the erection of a moderate government to avoid the excesses either side might commit if victorious. However dream-like and impossible this solution may prove to be, it is at least a straw for Europe to clutch...
...Idle Dream, Having soothed alarmists by radio, the President next day offered further reassurance by packing his bags for his customary Warm Springs trip as if no crisis were present or in prospect. His new strategy advanced when Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings took the stand as first witness at Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the Court plan...
...with colonies, because she is convinced that she has to have them and it often makes her angry to be asked why. Arid as diamonds is most of the Italian colony of Libya, for most of it consists of desert sands (see map, p. 23), but no Italian would dream of not defending this colonial diadem in case of need, and to Libya steamed last week nearly half the Royal Italian Navy to escort suitably and later be reviewed by His Excellency Benito Mussolini, Leader of the Party and Head of the State...
...best newsorgans in Germany today is the Frankfurter Zeitung. Its alert editors are not only internationally minded, but are constantly unearthing for their readers amusing and instructive tidbits. Declared the Frankfurter Zeitung, copies of which arrived in Manhattan last week: "We like to think of Vienna as a dream city where lovers sip their wine in soulful reverie pondering only how to please each other. We are mistaken, for last year 35,000 Viennese filed suits for defamation of character because somebody or other had called them 'Trottel' [dumbbell]. . . . These temperamental explosions cost in lawyers' fees...