Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Danzig is Dr. Karl Burckhardt, a Swiss professor of law whom Führer Hitler, in his last speech, called "incidentally a man of extraordinary tact." Dr. Burckhardt's "tact" consists largely of a do-nothing silence. Unlike his predecessor, fiery Sean Lester of Eire, who barked long and hard about the Nazis' repeated violations of Danzig's Constitution, Commissioner Burckhardt has uttered public words in Danzig only once and then subtly to quote from an inscription on a Danzig building: "The high things must be kept high and the low things low." His hearers could only...
...descendant of ancient Transylvanian Princes, long an inconspicuous member of the pre-War Hungarian Parliament, the gaunt, mustached, eagle-beaked Count was almost unknown outside his own country when in 1921 he became Premier of storm-tossed Hungary. After the War, when Hungary was ravaged by Bela Kun's flaming Bolshevism, Count Bethlen was one of the organizers of the French-sponsored aristocratic counterrevolution that exterminated the Communists and eventually established Admiral Horthy as Regent of the kingless Hungarian kingdom...
...shipments from the Bolivian refinery. Since Paraguay uses little oil, main purpose of the treaty was to provide Bolivia with an export outlet to the European market (for which she fought Paraguay unsuccessfully in the Chaco War), making possible the German deal Senor Foianini announced last week. Looking a long way ahead, he generously agreed in return to sell to Paraguay at cost the German-built refinery...
...Rome it was said that the Countess' physicians had ordered a sea trip for her long-suffering lungs. At the same time she would be able to visit friends that Count Ciano made in Rio in 1925, when he was an Italian consul there. The Countess traveled with tall, blonde, plump Marchesa Aleazzo Guido di Bagno, wife of the man who represents the hotel industry in the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations. The Countess and the Marchesa are considered leaders of Rome's younger smart...
...acknowledged public debt of 40,000,000,000 marks, the total Government deficit may be as high as 54,000,000,000 marks. But prices #151;the popular measure of inflation- have not risen markedly except on the "black" markets, nor are they likely to rise as long as Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo is busy spying on the shopkeepers. The over-all German standard of living has, however, fallen by at least 20% since the depression. And if extended work hours, the quality of goods and the recent failure to build houses or to replace obsolescent railroad equipment...