Word: making
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...violation of the pledged word, already have subjugated or destroyed three nations in Europe and threaten today the security of all. A lasting peace cannot be established except by reparation of the injustices that force imposed on Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland. . . ." Führer Hitler was scheduled to make his reply this week, but it seemed unlikely that he would see his way to repairing the "injustices" toward the three countries listed by the French President...
Mass bombing, probably by night, is a spectre that has overhung Great Britain for ten solid weeks. Every Briton has spotted the hole that he will go to when it comes. Every one supposes that, with all the time there has been to make ready, Air Raid Precautions will save the civilian population from such horrors as were seen in Barcelona and Madrid...
...hall entrance with two others, but we could not make headway against the stream of persons pouring out. Before us, filling the hall, was a yellow-grey wall of dust and smoke. . . . Several wounded faltered through the door. I broke through and . . . the way into the hall was now free. I had to adjust my eyes to the dimness. Then I saw what had happened...
...direct answer to Nazi hopes that the narrow escape would make Adolf Hitler better loved, some Berlin hater winged a brick through the plate-glass window of Hitler's favorite, official photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann. Herr Hitler was all dressed up in luck last week. The brick did not touch the big portrait of the Führer in the window...
Teamwork. Probably this lack of passionate convictions has helped make Kaufman the ideal collaborator. His adaptable, accommodating mind is geared to avoid collisions. It is also geared to let the other fellow's personality, rather than Kaufman's, permeate the play. What colors Beggar on Horseback, for example, is the pleasantly housebroken imaginativeness of Marc Connelly; what colors The Royal Family is the romantic bustle of Edna Ferber. The plays Kaufman has written with Moss Hart are better fused because, as comic playwrights, the two men are cut to much the same pattern...