Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where adversaries are hardly at grips, it is hard to grip war's facts. Most tangible important fact of last week was the statement (upon being landed safely in Great Britain) of Captain F. C. P. Harris of the freighter Clement, sunk early last month off South America's east coast. Captain Harris and his first engineer, W. Bryant, certified that the Nazi raider which kept them aboard five hours after sinking their Clement was the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer. This identity could still be doubted by people who know that German sailors wear bogus hatbands some...
...along the line there were last-minute changes. The annual meeting of the Nazi Party Old Guard-those hard, mystic, loyal, lower-middle-class men machine-gunned on the streets of Munich on Nov. 9, 1923, in Adolf Hitler's abortive bid for power-had been scheduled at the traditional hour of 8:30. At 6, the Munich radio announced, without giving a reason, that the meeting had been set ahead half an hour...
That insulin is a magic key to sanity, no psychiatrist believes. Says Dr. James Aloysius Flaherty, Dr. Strecker's young assistant: "It is carelessly gambling with a recovery hard-won to send a patient home without making real effort to stabilize the environment to which he must return or to exercise as many safeguarding precautions in planning his immediate course of action as are reasonably possible." Some doctors even press social responsibilities upon their patients in between injections, encourage them to work and play with other patients...
...more drastic provisions. Newsmen were not required to submit stories to the censor before publication, but-as in Germany-they were held personally responsible to the Government for what they wrote. For printing unwelcome news they could be fined $5,000, sentenced to five years in jail at hard labor...
...must to all countries sooner or later, the Nobel Prize for Literature went to Finland. Recipient: Frans Eemil Sillanpää, 51, shaven-headed, potbellied, hard-drinking Finnish widower. When he heard the news, Sillanpää, a government pensioner, sent his seven children through the suburbs of Helsinki shouting: "Father's rich!" To reporters he said, "I'm going to do what Knut Hamsun* did, disappear for two weeks in a bottle." Next day he announced his engagement to his secretary...