Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ever since 1922, when Britain granted the 26 southern counties Free State status and set up the six northern counties as a separate Government, every English-hating Irishman has been determined that some day the industrial north and the agricultural south must become one nation. A handful of intransigent nationalists, organized into the Irish Republican Army, have long held that force is the only argument Britain will heed...
...asking you to make war on Britain, but we ought to clear up a question that threatens to compromise French rights. We have occupation of factories, occupation of the Rhineland, occupation of Ethiopia and now part of French Somaliland and, finally, of the Minquiers Islands. Nobody has ever done anything about any of them...
Nobody in Chile has ever taken the five year-old Nacista party very seriously except the Nacistas. The Nacistas take everything seriously. Last week the Nacista Congress at Santiago was very grave about a serious mistake everybody (except the Nacistas) had made for a long time-namely, confusing the word Nacista with the word Nazi. The latter, they said has horrid meanings; Nacista has the most innocent root in the world- "birth...
...Mooney night was the most celebrated We, the People ever staged, but a certain Mr. X's six minutes last week provided a new high in schmalz. When tear-jerking Announcer Gabriel Heatter got to Mr. X there was a foggy sob in his voice. "On the afternoon of June 25, 1931," he lamented, "to a hospital in Jackson, Mississippi, police brought a well-dressed man who had collapsed on a city street. . . . Somewhere, somehow the link that bound him to the past had snapped. . . . The man became known as Mr. X and that man stands beside me tonight...
From their pet playwright the glittering audience got only Grade B Coward. One superb, side-splitting burlesque of an English charity pageant is probably the funniest sketch that Coward has ever written. Two of the songs, Mad About the Boy and The Stately Homes of England...