Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lonely, patient ones, whose speech comes slow, Whose codles always lean towards the blow...
...keep behind him. This William Green or John L. Lewis of France (and neither cap quite fits Jouhaux) is nearer to "Moscow" than is M. Blum. Earthy, cigar-chewing, big-eating Léon Jouhaux is out for what he can get, whereas intellectual, nervous, lean Léon Blum is akin in spirit to the Roosevelt New Deal and is always advocating in his newspaper that Mr. Roosevelt do something or say something epochal...
...Channel steamer going over to France last week Prime Minister & Mrs. Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary & Lady Halifax had a thoroughgoing tossing about. On deck Mr. Chamberlain nearly did a split and the long lean Foreign Secretary got a buffeting (see cut). The diplomatic traveling companions had an easier trip back two days later, the day the King signed his parchment. It was, of course, the Prime Minister who "advised" the Sovereign to demobilize the Fleet. His Majesty did so presumably because Mr. Chamberlain was satisfied, after talking in Paris with Premier Edouard Daladier (see p. 21), that this European emergency...
...that a Catholic organization will be launched to combat anti-Semitism throughout the world. The extent to which racism is an issue between the Church and Italy became evident in a sermon preached last fortnight by Italy's famed "Fascist" Cardinal, Archbishop Alfred Ildephonso Schuster of Milan. A lean, ascetic Benedictine, Cardinal Schuster has been spoken of as Mussolini's candidate for the next Pope. He has repeatedly blessed Fascism's achievements, such as carrying "to triumph the Cross of Christ" in Ethiopia. But in his sermon, published last week in Milan's Catholic daily, Italia...
Editor Merz ran the school paper in his home town of Sandusky. Ohio, served a one-year hitch as an intelligence officer in the War. He worked for the New York World through the seven lean years before its demise. He has had seven fat years since on the Times where he distinguished himself as an able articulator of the ideas of Publisher Arthur Hays ("The Boss") Sulzberger. For some time he has been one of the august council of seven-that tunes the Times. His new, sober post will probably not dim his quick...