Word: hard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accredited members) was ever the menace Red-baiters deemed it, last week it appeared to be in rout,* two leaders reported fleeing to Mexico, another pair too ill to be questioned, the Communist New Masses in danger of folding because of lack of funds, newsstands reporting the Daily Worker hard to sell. Only regret of many U. S. citizens was Browder's prosecution on a seemingly minor offense, thus permitting cries of persecution from the Left...
...occasion when a Baltic Foreign Minister was hard-pressed for concessions by Soviet Foreign Commissar and Premier Viacheslav M. Molotov and his aides, Comrade Stalin walked into the conference room, put his arm around the visitor's shoulder, smiled benignly, said: "Never mind, I'll protect you from these great Russians." > At a similar conference with another Baltic official Dictator Stalin varied his remark: "You know, these militarists want everything, but I am a politician and I can compromise." Result: The Russian demands were pared down. > When one Baltic Minister brought up the question of what...
There are dozens of magazines competing for the U. S. farmer's hard-earned dollar. Third in circulation this year was Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.'s Country Home, with 1,648,000 readers. (First was the newly-merged Farm Journal & Farmer's Wife with 2,475,000.) Selling to subscribers at 25? a year, Country Home had long struggled to break even. But in advertising revenues it was way behind: with "5,000 in the first nine months of 1939, it stood sixth on a list that Country Gentleman led with...
Last week the trustees of hard-up Hopkins voted to accept the Shriver bequest, kept a discreet silence as to when, how and by whom the Baltimore Beauties would be immuralized...
...must come out and claim our rights. We must deserve and get them. The day is past for a hard-of-hearing person to cling to solitude and slink through the world missing half of life because of a false sense of shame. So put on a hearing aid. Wear it with pride, not as a badge of disgrace!" Thus croaked deafened Novelist Rupert Hughes to fellow members of the American Society for the Hard of Hearing who met in Manhattan last week. On his own lapel he proudly wore one of his several electrical hearing aids...