Word: happening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though it is a recognized fact that there happen as many good deeds in the world as bad, the press, headed by pictorial sections, has displayed increasingly of late a tendency to feature the spectacular, the sordid, and the base in American life. Any justification of this course rests on the fundamental premise that most people secretly admire the man who dares...
...That might be the best thing that could happen,'' sagely observed an eminent, striped-trousered, black-jacketed British civil servant. "Without some such incident it is difficult for public opinion to grasp the immense significance of the acts of Japan, and unless public opinion is strongly aroused what...
...Alexander Telfer-Smollett and the U. S. Marines' Brigadier General John C. Beaumont. After they had twice protested in vain to the Japanese, a high U. S. official, lacking in Shanghai the detached perspective of London, cried: "If the Chinese fire a single shot, God knows what will happen! To hold such a procession at such a time is to invite disaster...
Cheering last week for the expected victory of the Stalin regime at the polls was Premier Prince Konoye of Japan. "If the results of the Russian election support the regime, trouble will not occur," beamed the Prince. "But if Stalin is upset it is impossible to say what may happen." Despite constant Soviet & Communist press uproar against "Fascist Japan," the Prince seemed confident that such help as thrifty Stalin gives China will be as inadequate as that he has given the Spanish Leftists. Soviet bombers arrived in China in considerable numbers and went into action last week...
...return for this freedom, however, some sort of responsibility is demanded. It is obvious that because the College does nothing to stop them beforehand, students are not free to run about the streets at night disturbing the peace, though such things have been known to happen, or to use Boston as the taking off spot for a round of riotous living, riotous living which can only reflect discredit on him who indulges and on the Harvard which does not hinder him. The price of living in a civilized society is paid by not murdering anyone whom you happen to dislike...