Word: happen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...working enemies, and democracy can only be preserved by political action on the part of its adherents. Thus the great mass of unaffiliated Harvard students are registering a vote of indifference to the outcome of a struggle which is today engulfing the entire world, and which can very definitely "happen here...
...Accidents happen to more experienced skiers." Hinton explained, "because they haven't any nerves at all. They go over anything...
Having made his debut as a professional actor last summer at Cohasset, Mass, (in It Can't Happen Here), Sinclair Lewis joined Actors' Equity Association to make his Broadway debut next spring (in Angela is Twenty-two). Said he: "This will create a major issue. . . . I'll have to go home and say, 'Darling, I don't know whether you can stand this or not, but I joined the A. F. of L.'* This makes me a reactionary." Then publicity-wise Author-Actor Lewis kissed his sponsor (Helen Hayes), posed for pictures, chortled: "Thank...
...early days of the Fascist dictators, U. S. citizens, confident that it could not happen here, made a political parlor game of speculating on a hypothetical U. S. dictator. After recent events in Europe the parlor game has become a little gruesome...
...first argument runs... "What the Germans do to their minorities is their business and not ours." The answer to this is simply that what does happen in this world seriously affects all of us.... What the Germans do affects our lives regardless of our will, with ever increasing immediacy. My contention is that isolationism is an avoidance of the issue and a retreat from correlated facts...