Word: honester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Turkish Foreign Minister Shokru Saracoglu, who in turn had just returned from nearly a month of desultory negotiations in Moscow with Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov, negotiations which finally collapsed. When he went to Moscow, Mr. Saracoglu was believed to be acting not only for Turkey but also as "honest broker" for Rumania in the touchy question of Bessarabia, the rich province which Rumania seized from Russia in 1918. Last week, after King Carol had received full particulars of what Ambassador Stoica had been able to learn from the Turkish Foreign Minister, Bucharest bigwigs gloomed and the New York Times...
...many punch lines in the rambling fantasy was as follows: "Naw, honest. I swear! I even saw their numbers and conning towers with 'U' on them...
MISS SUSIE SLAGLE'S - Augusta Tucker - Harper ($2.50). A first novel of life among medical students at Johns Hopkins, 1912-1916, written with honest knowledge of the place and a brand of sentiment exactly suggestive of the time. Typical of Author Tucker's reverent gusto: a scene in which a young student at an autopsy is struck by the glowing beauty of lungs and intestines...
...talk a lot about the future of America and the hope of the world. Both rest solely now upon the already bloody shoulders of young men who, facing a universe rotten to its core, yet dare to stand unbowed, and to declare (surprisingly enough!) honest and thoughtful convictions...
...began she took German citizenship by special dispensation of the Führer, then contracted double pneumonia and last week was convalescent in Munich. "I am a very sad man," groaned her father, Lord Redesdale, in London recently. "The King's enemies are the enemies of every honest Englishman...