Word: happen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nice of you to give all that publicity to our Exposition, but we who happen to live in downtown hotels will certainly have reason to bless you when tourists roam our neighborhood all night looking for trouble ! As a matter of fact, the neighborhood you have libeled is like any other downtown dis trict in a large city- it has plenty of bar rooms, gambling houses and houses of assigna tion. But it also includes a dozen quite respectable hotels, the Glide Memorial Church (Southern Methodist), the B'nai Brith Hall, the very newest and swankiest dance-spot...
...years millions of U. S. citizens, to whom Hearst has been an institution as well as a legendary figure, have wondered what would happen to the institution when William Randolph Hearst was no more. Of late they have ceased to wonder, have realized that the institution has already started breaking up before their eyes. Since Mr. Hearst abdicated two years ago, six Hearst newspapers, one news service and one magazine have been sold or scrapped; Hearst radio stations cut from ten to three; rare Hearst treasures have been knocked down for $708,846; the value of all Hearst properties, estimated...
...other hand, Mr. Hutton's keen perception of what will happen once war starts marks his work as a highly plausible piece of political prophecy. More than this, the keen appreciation of the highly unstable situation created in Central Europe by a power-crazed Fanatic makes Survey after Munich interesting and thought-provoking reading for anyone interested in the preservation of world peace...
...have all got to face it and face it together. . . . This goes down to the roots of whether civilization goes on or civilization dies, as many civilizations have died in the past. It is nothing new for a civilization to come to the end. We have seen it happen over and over again. It is just a question of whether we have the brains to keep it from happening and the determination and the character and the unselfishness. It is a great challenge to the people of this country because we are the leading country today. We have bought ourselves...
...been incorporated into the novel since she last wrote one (Bonfire, 1933), that she has felt it necessary to come up to date. The result sits on her head at a rakish angle, tapers to a giddy point. The angle: fascism is dangerous. The point: it can't happen here. The effect: distinctly overdressed...