Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tootled a Red Air Force ditty, Higher and Higher, which no Nazi was likely to recognize. As the Germans swept away in limousines at 6 p. m. the honor guard and band withdrew. Neither was left to greet the Estonian delegation of enforced capitulators who alighted a few minutes later at the same Moscow air field...
...after he reached Moscow. Herr von Ribbentrop left a ballet performance of Swan Lake to go to the Dictator at 11 p. m. and they talked until 4 130 a. m. Seemingly this German intervention made no difference in the terms meted out to Estonia and signed two days later by Foreign Minister Selter & delegation...
...veddy, veddy English accent and a brace of dimples he can switch on and off like headlights. His limpid life is complicated by a two-father complex. Father No. 1 (and sire) is Duke (pronounced Dook) Allen (Richard Dix), Stafford 1917, football, track, a brilliant writer who 20 years later is still winding up Chapter Four of his first novel. Father No. 2 is a famous lawyer (George Zucco) who married David's mother (Gladys George) after she left Duke for nonpayment of rent, has brought David up sheltered from the realities of life. A freshman at Stafford, David...
...jingo shots from World War I looked like throw-backs to a simpler, sweeter time. Beside tough Dictators Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, the sword-rattling Kaiser and autocratic Tsar looked like kindly, slightly fuddled grandfathers. Beside the Communazi conquerors of Poland and the Moscow pact-makers (shown first as outlaws, later as dictators over a combined 240 millions of lives) the Versailles Treaty-makers (Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Orlando) looked unworldly and Utopian...
When he returned from Rome in 1924 with a red hat, 50,000 Catholics paraded to welcome' him. And on each of two later occasions-an international Eucharistic Congress in 1926, a celebration in 1034 of his 25th anniversary as bishop-1,000,000 people joined him in public acts of devotion...