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Word: hering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Edgar Hoover last week called upon U. S. patriots to join his G-Men in a holy war: on spies, murderers, foreignisms, burglars, alien-minded mongrels, Utopian praters, saboteurs, subversive lawbreakers of every sort. "Here," cried the chief of FBI, "is a battle between priceless God-fearing principles on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: No Witches | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

One painfully interested observer of all this headline turmoil was Hester Huntington's ex-husband, father of her three handsome children. From his office at No. 49 Wall Street Ellery Huntington icily avowed: "My family has been here many generations and anything not absolutely 100% American is naturally distasteful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Gibson Girl | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Deutschland vanished and the prize crew, armed with pistols and daggers, sailed Flint northeast, through icebergs and bitter cold. They made a Danish flag, painted out the U. S. flags on the ship's side, altered her funnel, changed her name to Alf. They got jittery watching for British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Deutschland at Large | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

> On one 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Negotiator Stalin | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

The late Havelock Ellis's seven-volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex is one of the notable examples of clinical candor in modern writing. When he came to write his autobiography, clinically candid Havelock Ellis tried to outdo himself. Said he, "To do what I have done here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Candor | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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