Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second hero was the late Father Andreas Hlinka, founder of the Slovak autonomous movement. His followers last week prepared Masaryk's eggs for scrambling. Members of the pro-Nazi, anti-Czech, anti-Jewish Hlinka Guard have long plotted, through the semi-autonomous Slovak Cabinet, to proclaim Slovakia's independence, relying on Germany's support and subsequent protection. To a Germany which frankly wants to get a foothold in Carpatho-Ukraine, right next to Slovakia, such a plan smelled good. In any case, the weaker Czecho-Slovakia becomes the more potent becomes Germany's dominion over...
...stood in a large hall in Moscow one night last week and spoke with the dry air of a professor giving a lecture he has delivered several times before. He talked in a drowsy monotone, occasionally taking long pauses to sip mineral water. No foreign newspapermen were present. No radio apparatus was set up. The speech was dreadfully long. But when the session was over and official typewritten copies were handed out, correspondents rushed to cables and telephones...
...18th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Although nothing like the rants which Herr Hitler broadcasts to the world, the speech was a big event-both because Stalin seldom sounds off on Russian and international affairs, and because the Congress was the first in five long years during which the repeatedly purged Communist Party has come to look as little like its former self as a muzhik who has shaved off his beard...
...hero of Boris appears in only three of the long, episodic music drama's nine scenes,* must work hard to dominate its diffuse action. If Pinza failed to dominate, it was partly because the whole production was one of the finest the Metropolitan has mounted in years. Aside from the fact that it was sung in Italian, it would doubtless have pleased hard-drinking neurotic Modeste Moussorgsky, who, when he wrote the opera in 1873, attempted to make the People the protagonist, gave the chorus a great "Revolutionary Scene," in which he planted ideas which did not come...
...moved The Conning Tower from the Tribune in 1922; in 1923 Walter Lippmann took charge of the editorial page; from 1925 to 1928 Alexander Woollcott flourished as the World's dramatic critic. Rollin Kirby wrote editorials when he felt like it, besides drawing his long-chinned Prohibitionist, his side-whiskered, potbellied G. O. Partisan and many another famed character. He won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1921 (On the Road to Moscow), another in 1924 (News from the Outside World) and a third in 1928 for Tammany!, one of the most savagely comic cartoons ever printed...