Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazis when Lord Londonderry changed his mind. In a speech before the Empire-minded Overseas League in London, he called upon Mr. Chamberlain to pledge his Government not to "sacrifice an inch of territory or one individual" to Nazi colonial demands. For good measure he added: "We cannot hand over any population to a country which seems bent on exterminating a section of its community or on reducing them to a situation which calls for condemnation by every right-minded man and woman throughout the civilized world...
...General de Miller's "staff" summoned a meeting of White Russian officers, confronted General Skobline with General de Miller's note. The officers were reminded that the White Russian court had previously acquitted Skobline of charges that he was on the Soviet payroll and had had a hand in the abduction of General Alexander Paul Koutiepoff (TIME, April 14, 1930). Skobline denied any knowledge of the de Miller affair and walked out of the meeting. He was never seen again...
...other guests jumbo type has been used, and for presbyopic Impresario Daniel Frohman the script was hand-printed, in letters several inches tall. More difficult was color-blind Manhattanite Robert Reuschle, who wanted his lines typed in "red," the color he could see best. (The script had to be typed in green, which he saw as red.) Worst of the lot was 119-year-old Flora Williams, a onetime slave. Mrs. Williams had never learned to read, could memorize nothing, had to ad lib her interview with Commentator Gabriel Heatter. Even under the strain of broadcasting she could not keep...
...result of new appointments to the board by reform Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, Dr. Robinson's supporters were outnumbered. He applied for a sabbatical year. The college calmed, today is as peaceful as a vacated battle field. When Dr. Robinson offered his resignation last week, with one hand the board snapped it up, with the other gratefully applauded his "long and distinguished service...
...sight, when Androcles waltzes with the lion, when Caesar is chased by it, claims the credit for taming it, orders everybody to turn Christian. Such high jinks do not make one wonder what Shaw "means" by it all; they make one wonder whether he may not have had a hand in Hellzapoppin...