Word: fronting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been excellent advice that ailing Pat Harrison had phoned to the White House in mid-September-to lie low, avoid dramatic moves, cajole the South. For once more the South's balance of power had been clearly demonstrated. Lacking Southern support, Franklin Roosevelt was beaten on every Congressional front in July and August (TIME, August 14); with it he won clearly in the Senate last fortnight, in the House last week-where 95 Southern votes were cast for repeal of the arms embargo, two against...
...sophisticated melodrama is "Rio", elevated to its position as a far-better-than-usual second feature by the acting of Basil Rathbone; while the dresses that Sigrid Gurie wears might even bring the bald headed sugar daddies back to the front row. Gene Tunney is the star of the Information Please short...
Seiberling said that by this time Baker may be actually at the front, and pointed out that in the last war the Foreign Legion was the spearhead of many major offensives...
...breath-taking surprise was the eight-piece jazz unit known as Matty Malneck's orchestra which captivated the audience with its novel rhythms featuring a Harpo Marxish accordion player called Milton Delugg. Eve Arden as a wealthy patroness of odd theatricals proved to be a front of witty dialogue, Grace-McDonald and Frances Mercer are attractive ingenues, Jack Whiting appears as an adequate song-and-dance man. The dancing of Don Loper and Maxine Barrat provides dynamic climaxes for several of the sequences. "All the Things You Are" is probably the standout among the ever-original and entrancing Kern tunes...
...nevertheless they still rouse suspicion that the Administration is not neutral. In striving for its immediate objective, repeal, it may well have raised a Frankenstein of anti-German feeling that will destroy its efforts to keep us out of war. The time has come for a sharp change of front. If the old accusation, "Pro-German!" is heard, it will be well to remember that Americans and Germans alike will have a medal ready for the man who can keep us out of this...