Word: em
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the great communist scare of 1919. "treat 'em rough" has been the apparent policy of the United States in dealing with the so-called "Red" element of the population. Aside from characteristic protest from such liberal journals as the Nation no one has become very much excited over a situation which places the government in the position of an avowed suppressor of political minorities to whom the constitution guarantees freedom. Anarchist outrages like the Wall Street bombing identified the communist party in the public mind as an outlawed enemy of society to whom no treatment was just save that...
...never quite broke, he was in an increasing agony of bewildered fear and uselessness. Said one of the mess: "This parson of ours came out, I should say, thinking he was going to preach a Jihad.* All parsons do, to a certain extent. And what happens-some of 'em turn into quite good mess caterers, and that's about all." Chaplain Warne did not even turn into a good mess-caterer. Confronted by the daily reality of war and what seemed to his unseeing eyes the no less horrible callousness of his fellows, first his courage, then...
Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. ("Don't wonder at the tremendous grosses the Paramount Exhibitor is piling up. He's not pulling 1929 pictures out of the icebox and hoping they'll eat 'em up; he's giving them 1930 Paramount hits right off the fire and they're flocking to the feast" [advertisement in Jan. 8 Variety] ) : $15,500,000 (estimated) as against...
...through their city. Harper's Weekly printed a full-page series of cartoons showing a grotesquely night-capped and bewhiskered Lincoln sitting up in bed while a lackey shouts: "The Blood tubs are after yer!" Lincoln replies, "Run-no-nev-a-r-r let 'em shoo-o-t." Finally, attired in his Scotch cap and long military cape (misconstrued as a disguise) "Abe" retreats over the back fences. He boards a train which takes him to the White House, where he is presented to President Buchanan by Seward who explains the President-elect's quaking...