Word: maye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very ardent and devoted reader of TIME, I believe that a gross injustice has been done to the people of the State of New Mexico because of your undignified and, certainly, unwarranted misnomer of Senator Chavez. May I venture to say, Mr. Editor, that Senator Chavez' ancestors were upon the American continent, that is now the United States of America, prior to the time that your forefathers were here. . . . This reflects no discredit upon you, or anyone else, as there are thousands of loyal American citizens who cannot trace their ancestry to the early Spanish colonists in the Southwest...
...McWhiney is definitely the superior sort of male who regards all women as merely biological instruments. He is the type, too, who is apt to dismiss with a pitying smile, the idea that women may be vitally interested in such serious subjects as politics, finance, international affairs...
...these last cases the soul of Frank Murphy may be tested to the uttermost, for the political explosive in them is nitroglycerin, not common black powder as in New Orleans and Kansas City. Yet none of his friends suspects for a second that the soul of Frank Murphy will fail the test...
...National Committee to Keep America Out of Foreign Wars "to counteract the inspired propaganda which has created mass war hysteria throughout the Nation by inflaming the fears and passions of our people." In April, on a nationwide radio hookup, he begged "an end to all this war talk." In May his committee was offering $100 prizes for essays on "Why America Should Keep Out of Foreign Wars," and Congressmen were beginning to refer to their alarmed colleague as a "Leader of the Ostrich Bloc...
...Blue," says the Barbarian Britannus in Shaw's Caesar & Cleopatra, "is the color worn by all Britons of good standing. In war we stain our bodies blue; so that though our enemies may strip us of our clothes and our lives, they cannot strip us of our respectability." Though Britons long since ceased painting themselves for battle, they were blue all over last week about their position on the Far Eastern Front of the War of Nerves. The Japanese, having stripped Far Eastern Britons of clothes and Face (Oriental for respectability), moved troops into position along the border...