Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soil from leased bases (TIME, Oct. 9), there was a great dither of excitement. J. Stalin had demanded that ratifications of the Soviet-Estonian Treaty be exchanged without fail in six days, a trick J. Stalin learned from A. Hitler when demanding a quick handover from little States like Austria and Czecho-Slovakia. Only an hour now remained before this time limit expired and the necessary papers had not yet arrived from Moscow. To nervous Estonians this seemed ominous. Already two Soviet military missions had arrived in Tallinn on trains heavily guarded by soldiers, and were living at the railway...
...last month amid arc lights that made the Indian Legislative Assembly Hall at Simla, the summer capital, look like a film studio, six-foot Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, read to a hushed gathering a long telegram from His Majesty the King. The telegram explained why Great Britain had thought it wise to enter a war and the monarch was confident of India's support. Then His Excellency the Viceroy put on his pince-nez, looked accusingly at his audience and proceeded to assure His Majesty, on behalf of India, that India saw eye to eye with everything Britain...
Those who have said that a new war would have no heroes reckoned without such as Stefan ("The Stubborn") Starzynski, Mayor of Warsaw, a truly great fighter, very marrow of the very bone of Warsaw's hopeless 20-day defense. Like a captain who goes down with his ship, like a wild animal which perishes defending its nest, Mayor Starzynski meant what he said when he cried over Warsaw's radio: "We are fighting to death." Last week, as it must even to the greatest men, death came to Stefan the Stubborn. Stubbornly, he died...
...that other war, reminisced these veterans, there was nothing at sea like Germany's raiders. They behaved far differently from submarines. The raiders' game was almost merry: a game of masquerade, chase, chivalry, a game with rules,-grim outlawry with a face of fun and even a little virtue. Take, for instance, the old Emden...
Aboard the Emden his captives lived like kings. The larder was always full. Pet kittens, two pigs, some lambs, a pigeon, geese had the run of the ship. There was a band concert every afternoon. Finally the ship had so much victual booty that an extra meal was served: afternoon coffee with bonbons...