Word: kineticism
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Recently fortune has frowned on kinetic, scrub-brush-headed Augustine. Year ago he was driven from power. Month ago, interned by the government on an estate at Kroettingen as a menace to public safety he made an abortive effort to escape (TIME, Aug. 11). Fortnight ago Mme Waldemaras went to...
Last week came more news of kinetic, scrub-brush-headed Professor Valdemaras. Into the woods near Kroettingen he innocently disappeared with two friends. Ostensibly they had set out for a walk. When they came to a road, a car quietly pulled up alongside them. Professor Valdemaras & friends had started to...
Three months ago kinetic André Tardieu, also with a woefully weak government* became Prime Minister of France. The MacDonald strategy seemed to him excellent, he too concentrated on foreign affairs. Hectically he dashed back and forth to Geneva, to The Hague, to London but though he nearly wrecked the...
Flushed by his first victory, driving, kinetic M. Tardieu then presented the conference with his plan of procedure. When this had been haggled over and slightly modified, James Ramsay MacDonald said poetically to reporters: "The partition between our position and the French is now so thin that if you should...
The recent Tardieu memorandum to the Powers seriously jeopardized the Conference in advance (TIME, Jan. 6), by dragging in such issues as "Freedom of the Seas" (which Statesmen Hoover and MacDonald had agreed is too inflammable to touch) and by disparaging the Kellogg Pact, which they months ago announced would...