Word: itches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Russia and Japan were talking back & forth about a war as if such a conflict were as certain to come as this year's U. S. baseball season. Each side piously insisted that it would not start it but neither convincingly dissembled its itch for a "defensive fight...
...rapprochement, perhaps not desired at that time by either Dictator Stalin or Dictator Pilsudski. Last year M. Zaleski was replaced by Foreign Minister Beck, a "Pilsudski Colonel," reputed a swashbuckler. Momentarily the Polish-Russian rapprochement seemed to go glimmering. But Adolf Hitler, with his tirades against Marxism and his itch to have back the Polish Corridor, played straight into Comrade Litvinov's hands. Last week while Colonel Beck lavished congratulations on the roly-poly Russian, demoted "Briand of the North" Zaleski watched with quiet satisfaction from his vantage point as president of Warsaw's largest private bank...
Courtship Itch. Dr. William Waddell Duke of Kansas City cited the case of a heat-sensitive swain who feared making love to his sweetheart because every time he caressed her he had an itching attack, and was obliged to scratch. Contrariwise, cold makes certain sensitive individuals restless. Surrogated Dr. Duke: "It's extremely unfortunate if a husband is cold sensitive and his wife heat sensitive. He feels good if he's active, and the same thing makes her feel...
Many a man fancies himself most in a role that would surprise his friends. Clowns are notoriously tragic actors. Often prose-writers break out into a poetic itch, and if the rash is compelling enough, even break quarantine and show themselves in public. Author Faulkner, with a prominent but still embattled reputation as a proseman, now comes forth with a small (72-page) book of poems. It is his second such venture (in 1924 he published The Marble Faun) and only deep-dyed Faulknerites will find it more fine than frenzied. His simultaneous debut last week as a cinema author...
...lands, they go about naked even in midwinter, although this is less popular with the younger generation than with strapping Doukhobor matrons and bearded elders. Nakedness is also a convenient form of protest against the Government, a protest which the Northwest Mounted Police combat with whips, tear-bombs, itch-powder (TIME, Sept...