Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...begun its Manchurain adventure, England remained sublimely all of to the many pleas for naval action against the aggressor. Now in parallel circumstances the lordly power takes measures of intimidation and oppression against the new aggressor, and induces a large part of the rest of the world to join in righteous indignation. No explanation other than imperial interest can begin to account for these merry-go-round tactics...
...Alexander Loveday. Last week they made world headlines by informing correspondents that Adolf Hitler's Geneva Consul General, Dr. Wolfgang Krauel, had just made to them a most epochal démarche, nothing less than an intimation that the Nazi Reich, although a nonLeague State, was about to join League States in sanctions against Italy after...
...America!" Parade of Innocents. Arlette Stavisky, onetime Chanel model and the mistress of the Great Swindler long before she was his wife, may never have been his confidante and accomplice, as the State now charges, but credulity was strained last week when the other 19 defendants sought to join her in a parade of injured innocents. Why did M. Raoul Desbrosses, director of the Orleans municipal pawnshop, sign worthless bonds so that Stavisky might sell them? "Stavisky was desperate!" cried Defendant Desbrosses last week. "When I refused to sign, he drew a pistol, pressed it to his temple, and threatened...
Main speaker of the day, Sir Norman Angell, British economist, talked little upon the proposed subject of the meeting, "Shall the United States Forbid All Exports to Italy?" but veered off to a campaign speech on why all the nations of the world, in effect, the United States should join the League. He entreated that "in international problems, power should be transferred from the litigant to the law. Pledge your support to the law of civilization, not to the litigant. This is anarchy...
...first time in several years a piece will be sung jointly by both groups, "Glorious Apollo," by Webbe, having been selected for this concert. It will be directed by Bartholomew. At the end of the program the men from both schools will again join in singing "Bright College Years," and "Fair Harvard...