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Word: matter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Legion. An eye-witness to Hitler's 1923 beer-hall Putsch, Actor Muenz gibed: "I was in the street when the machine guns began to fire. Immediately Hitler was down on his face. His General, Franz Ritter von Epp, got disgusted and shouted: 'What's the matter with you? You are supposed to be a soldier. Stand up. The people want to see you. . . .' [Hitler] was a simple, very simple, sick, no crazy man. ... I'd love to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Names | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...Highgate Police Court from her rooming-house in Hornsey, North London, hied Mrs. Bridget Elizabeth Dowling Hitler, Adolf Hitler's Irish-born sister-in-law, for the second time on a matter of back debts. The first time (last January) it was the rooming-house tax, ?9 13s. 10d; this time the electric bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: PEOPLE IN WAR NEWS | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...about an understanding with them. . . . If the British Government has refused to consider all these offers, and now makes a reply consisting in overt acts of war, this is not the responsibility of the German people. . . . We shall therefore reply to all acts of attack coming from England, no matter under what form, with the same weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Last Words | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Said KWK's president, Robert Convey, as though he might have to give Hitler time to answer her: "It was our belief that Miss Thompson was expressing some personal opinions, and it does not seem . . . in view of the N. A. B. code, that anything but reportorial matter would be in the public interest." Next day the isolationist New York Daily News, while not contesting Miss Thompson's right to be heard on the radio, commented testily: "We cannot help wishing that Dorothy Thompson's son, now about 10, were about 19 instead. If that were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Air Alarums | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Antony and Herod the Great. But these famed figures "are here written of as husbands rather than as heroes." Told in an exact, classical prose, and simply condensing a vast amount of fact, Lives of Wives keeps a shrewd, wifely eye on these celebrated husbands, dissects what was the matter with their wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Man's Image | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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