Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regarding the article "Churchill-to-Europe," p. 26, TIME, Aug. 17, the writer is interested in knowing more about passenger accommodations out of this port. Would you kindly forward address to which I may write for more detailed information. Thanking...
...This book is based on the supposition that many people are becoming tired of extravagant language in politics." It ends: "Everybody knows that, if this country conserves its resources, it can produce enough to provide everybody with a decent standard of living. . . . Mr. Roosevelt has moved a little distance forward. . . ." First for the late arch-Democratic New York World, since then for the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune, Author Lindley covered Franklin Roosevelt for seven years, became one of the President's favorite White House correspondents. In Half Way With Roosevelt he presents a cool, critical but sympathetic...
...Butler Godfrey shows the babbling Mrs. Bullock how to get rid of the "little men" that haunt her after parties. He disciplines her musician sweetheart (Mischa Auer), whose single ability is that he can imitate a gorilla. He solves the financial woes of Mr. Bullock, who has been looking forward to going to Sing Sing as an embezzler so that he can "get up early, and do my day's work and not' bother about bills...
...Most of them ask nothing better than a return to the good old days. . . . One is tempted to ask why we should not settle down to the football of our forefathers, with goal posts on the zero yard line, five yards for a first down, and no forward passes...
...game was only a game, but His Majesty and Premier Mussolini, together with foreign military attaches, watched with grave attention the performance of several Italian novelties in war. The so-called "ground clearing tank" duly swept all obstacles before it, thundering forward to make a path 25 feet wide on which followed less Gargantuan motorized equipment. By a characteristic dictation of II Duce, the traditional rivalry of artillery and infantry corps was squashed by compressing the two arms into integrated units, and Fascist newsorgans declared: "For the first time the artillery fought in infantry units, not merely with them...