Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bawling Mr. Kuhn and the bawling committeemen between them produced one significant fact: "To level off this vicious criticism," the Bund has discarded its Storm Trooper uniforms, its Hitler Swastikas, the Nazi salute...
...than 5,000,000 British women, more than one-ninth of the whole population of the Kingdom. Yet with the demand for yarn ten times greater than in peacetime, the price last week was successfully held to eightpence (14?) per ounce, up just a penny from the pre-war level...
...British do it differently. Masters of fact-presenting as well as of fiction, they have managed to convince the world, by promptly reporting disasters (and, not so promptly, victories) that whatever comes from their official spokesmen is accepted as dead on the level...
...well constructed plot that swings the audience along from crack to crack without a let-down. Another element, sort of added attraction, is some thought-content,--not much, it's true, but some. The characters of Madison Breed and B. J. Wickfield are drawn on a slightly higher level than the broad, low, and beautiful plain of sex, even though they make frequent excursions downward. The girl-lead, Cindy Lou, while undergoing ordeal by hell-fire and brimstone in the process, eventually lands on the top of the heap in the final scene, showing that Miss Booth may have some...
...more peace or safety on earth without a profound reconstruction of the methods of human living, the Great War did not so much come to an end as smoulder through two decades, the fatuous twenties and the frightened thirties, to flare up again now. Now at a level of greater tension, increased violence and destructiveness and more universal suffering, we are back to something very like 1914, and the decisive question before our species is whether this time it will set its face resolutely towards that drastic remoulding of ideas and relationships, that world revolution, which it has shirked...