Word: meekness
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Fifth item made real news. Mr. Brooks, 38, a banker, ordinarily as meek as a citizen, had been commuting from Greens Farms, Conn, for four years. Twice a day he had been shoved around in Grand Central Station, trampled like a grape in a vintage year; then, as he neared the train, given the old heave-o into the car by bawling subway guards. One muggy morning last week, Subway Guard Matthew Walsh spied Commuter Brooks on the crowd fringe, got behind him, shoved him mightily between the closing doors of a subway car. It was all suddenly too much...
...Speaker Herriot last week denounced Moscow as "a regime seeking to crush the weak," called for maximum French aid to the Finns, brought the Deputies to their feet shouting, "Long live Finland!" The last three Reds said nothing, but it did not appear that they could stay, even if meek. Vice Premier Camille Chautemps introduced a bill to expel every last Red in France from office - from Chamber, Senate, from national, provincial and municipal offices...
...large part nullified by World War II, and under its first real gunfire in Congress, with his idealistic world in realistic ruins, he stands at the pinnacle of his career. The most conservative member of the Roosevelt Cabinet of New Dealers, he is its best-loved. He seems meek, but the Department dooryard is figuratively heaped with the bones of bolder, shaggier men who have tried to elbow him to one side...
...occasion, Playwright Oboler had constructed This Lonely Heart, a doloroso radio fluoroscoping of the troubled soul of Tschaikowsky's ever-loving patroness, Mme von Meek (Nazimova...
Last week seven U. S. peace bodies* issued a Pacifist Handbook designed to inform and gird pacifists and conscientious objectors for the next war. The Handbook is factual, realistic, anything but meek and mild. In some 60 questions and answers, it shows pacifists what happened to their fellows in the last war, what will probably happen to them in the next, not excluding "the concentration camp and even the firing squad." The Handbook summarizes the arguments against pacifism to which its adherents will be subjected, suggests various courses of action in such dilemmas as: whether to refuse...