Word: facings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been doing." He turns to Mussolini for help. "Do you suppose," barks Il Duce, "that I am going to ruin my country to make you emperor of the universe?" He turns to the diplomat, taunting him that England will not fight. "Fight? We shall wipe you off the face of the earth!" He turns defiantly to them all: "I shall sweep through Poland like a hurricane." "Do so by all means, Comrade," coos the Commissar. "When you have finished, you will settle with me how much of it you may keep...
Nancy Brown at 69 is small, gentle, spry. Every year since 1934 she has held a religious service on Belle Isle (between Detroit and Windsor, Ont.) at sunrise on Easter Morning. At these services Nancy buries herself in the crowd, her face hidden in the fur collar of her coat. Few of her contributors know her real name, and she knows few of theirs...
...Woman Behind the Painting became inevitable. If Biographer Mumford† had had the style to confine her monograph within 200 incisive pages, she might have added something to literature. By being half again as long as that, and by a dutifully winsome acceptance of Anna McNeill Whistler at face value, her book achieves another kind of effect: the case history in 19th Century terms of a dear, good, pious, plaintive, prissy, possessive woman...
...fear that America will be again drawn into the European war. The warnings deduced from a survey of the past are bolstered by an editorial based upon the new program of the Student Union and by a reasoned plea of Porter Sargent '96, for a greater wariness in the face of a new onslaught upon us by British propaganda. The picture which Mr. Stange presents is one of a rapid drift away from a combination of indifference and pacifism toward the general acceptance of the need for preparedness and even of some militarism for its own as well...
Consequently, it must be reiterated that the question of free speech is not involved if facts are taken at their face value. Browder was granted permission to speak at Harvard on a certain date. Meanwhile, he was indicted on criminal charges of passport invasion; so his speaking permission was revoked. From this it should be clear that Browder, for the purposes of the case, had a dual personality: that of the Communist spokesman and that of the passport violator. He was excluded from a Harvard assembly in his second capacity only. If Mr. Greene was sincere--and the burden...