Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outside looking in. Apart from occasional darts to the Left, dragging a red herring, and aside from plenty of cockney and dialectal comedy, which is really a "front," the British Broadcasting Corp. is essentially Gad-Sir-the-Empire Tory, and uncompromisingly for all that the Empire does not mean to Britain's underprivileged millions...
...Danzig might be part of a general European settlement. Count Ciano went back to Rome. The Premier of Yugoslavia returned to Belgrade. The Regent of Hungary made an unexpected "private" visit to Berlin. Poland's line remained-in Marshal Smigly-Rydz's artful words-peace could not mean "take" for nations, "give" for others. And all over Europe the 8,000,000 men under arms lined up like marksmen preparing to shoot at a ghost, training their guns against radio waves, trying to surround words in newspapers...
...neither was strong enough to put anyone else in. Traditional parliamentary behavior for such conservatives as Jonkheer de Geer would have been to watch Catholic and Socialist leaders flounder through the attempt, gleefully call attention to each failure, assuming that the increasing confusion would in the long run mean more votes for the Christian Historical Party. Instead, Jonkheer de Geer, who voted against the motion of no confidence, was asked by Queen Wilhelmina to form a Cabinet. Thin, mustached, respected, severe, a shade less conservative than Dr. Colijn, Jonkheer de Geer reluctantly accepted. But, he told his colleagues, the vote...
...those were the headquarters and that was the funeral of one of the richest men in the world, a man who by floating loans could keep whole countries from sinking, whose death and its subsequences may cause a political crisis in France. This financial emperor was a fat-lipped, mean, noxious, cigar-smoking German Jew, one of whose mistresses had a gold bathtub and who, after 20 years in The Netherlands, could not speak enough Dutch to boss his own chauffeur. His name was Dr. Fritz Mannheimer...
...work is required. . . . Girls write their own price tags. . . . Don't feed men flattery in hunks, with a shovel. They resent this." One Lure Men Can't Resist is: "The come-hither look in the eye, a sort of come-on look if you get what I mean...