Word: lukewarm
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...Russia. Eduard Benes naturally hopes for fulfillment of the pacts he drew up. But Yugoslavia and Rumania are gravitating closer to the Rome-Berlin axis, French Rightists openly predict that France will never come to the little nation's aid and even French Socialists and Radical Socialists are lukewarm to the pledge. The effectiveness of Russian assistance, weakened by purges in the Red Army and by internal conditions, is a large unknown. However, what Bismarck said about Bohemia still holds, and if Czechoslovakia's allies might not come to the aid of Czechoslovakia, they might come...
...referendum is concerned-is Dr. Cyrus Adler, archeologist, president of Jewish educational institutions in Manhattan and Philadelphia, and president of the American Jewish Committee. Founded in 1906. the Committee represents U. S. Jewry at its richest and most conservative, is non-Zionist, lukewarm toward boycotts and protests. Between President Adler and President Wise there is intense personal dislike. Last fortnight, speaking for his Committee and for "Americans who are Jews," Dr. Adler denounced Rabbi Wise's "Hitler plebiscite." In return, on Dr. Adler's home grounds in Philadelphia, Rabbi Wise made a bitter personal attack on Dr. Adler...
...courses each year, turn out master navigators for $100; radio engineers, $250; master mechanics, $495; private and limited commercial pilots, $545 to $795; commercial pilots, $2,285; master pilots, $3,275. The two-year aeronautical engineering course costs $1,275. Most parents help with fees, though Ryan finds oldsters "lukewarm to aviation." In 15 years only one student has been killed. No jobs are guaranteed, but most of the 137 students who graduate this year will get into airlines, airports, become aircraft dealers or salesmen...
Bachelor Born (by Ian Hay; produced by Milton Shubert in association with Ruth Selwyn). Since the recent razzing in London of You Can't Take It With You (last year's Pulitzer Prize comedy), and the lukewarm reception of several English comedies in Manhattan, drama authorities have been cogitating once again the old question: What is the difference between English and American humor? British fun, according to British Authorities J. B. Priestley and Charles Morgan, is more subdued; Yankee fun is more roistering. By all the rules, Bachelor Born, which was a hit in London (under the title The Housemaster...
...predatory stuffed shirt (Hugh Miller) leave Montmartre's half-world a better place to live in. The Rat was originally (1924) a pot-boiled play by England's Constance Collier and Ivor (Keep the Home Fires Burning) Novello. On the screen it is still the same lukewarm dish...