Word: hatefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distinguishing feature of Fascism that military accomplishments are loudly extolled, and foreign countries defied, whenever economic pressures increase. As the food shortage grows more serious in Rome, also do the "victory songs" grow louder and Italian medicinemen beat the tom-toms of hate and self-adulation with increasing gusto. Mussolini is faced with increased living costs, an unbalanced budget, a shortage and an upset foreign trade, and he has realized that only by playing on the passions of his Latin populace can he divert its minds from dwelling upon its economic position or physical sufferings...
...Warren Harding had no high opinion of that President. The opponents of Calvin Coolidge were scornful of his intellect. The opponents of Herbert Hoover despised his political bungling, sneered at his false prophecies. But the outstanding development of the last year is that Franklin Roosevelt's opponents now hate him with profound passion. The depth of this bitterness is shown by the excesses of the Liberty League and its allies, by the vast number of wholly malicious rumors attacking the President, by the flood of crank letters which go to the White House. The actual number of these letters...
MORNING OF LIFE-Kristmann Gudmundsson-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Hardbitten, cold-climated tale of love, hate and a tough winter; by an Icelandic author who has been translated into a dozen languages...
...education with a commendable bang, the meeting went on record as supporting the Nye-Kvale Bill for abolishing compulsory military training in public institutions. At the present time it is hard to believe that the R.O.T.C. could grow into a warlike Prussian order, fomenting national "honor" and international hate. But there is no logical reason to discriminate against students at government colleges, making them bear arms against their will. Indeed the popularity of the training is enough to justify removing the compulsory feature. But at any event the solid work of the Peace Committee, coupled with the more spectacular efforts...
...Additional dialogue by Dorothy Parker" makes the story of "The Moon's Our Home" what it is--a delightful comedy brim full of witty Parkerisms. Faith Baldwin may have written the original story about two celebrities--one a Richard Halliburton and the other a Garboish actress--who hate one another's reputation, but fall in love under their original names of Brown and Smith, marry, and presumably fight ever after. But the spirit, praise be, is that of Miss Parker. Margaret Sullavan and Henry Fonda play the parts of the temperamental lovers with high-spirited zest. Charles Butterworth contributes...