Word: hardheadedness
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"Sparta, not Athens, is our model," proclaimed Little John, but he took political cues from Berlin and Rome. He ruthlessly abrogated all civil liberties and constitutional guarantees, created a secret police and Nazified youth organization, filled prisons and concentration camps with political opponents, drove hundreds into exile, purged others with...
Soon the noble savage's life was a whirl of London parties as drawing-room doors flew open. Omai dressed in the height of fashion. Baffling British etiquette held no mysteries for him. He was presented to George III. Sir Nathaniel Dance and Sir Joshua Reynolds (see cut) painted...
Last week President Roosevelt asked Congress for power to give the British all the munitions they need, whether they can pay for them or not (see p. 15). But as a matter of practical policy his Government was meanwhile being more hardheaded. To the accompaniment of furious harumphs from some...
The man who knew the German plans was a hardheaded artillery expert named Franz Haider. In World War I he served as a captain and General Staff officer with the Bavarian infantry, has stuck to the same work ever since. As Chief of the German General Staff in 1939 he...
Abnormal Teetotalers. Quite a different note was sounded in the proceedings by Sociologist Jeremiah Patrick Shalloo of the University of Pennsylvania. Said he, in his hardheaded Irish way: