Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immoral is this arbitrary fixing of labels-"poetaster," "poeticule," "ham" (in a recent "review" of unhappy memory)-and then forcing the material to correspond to them. The pity of it is that you are influential. Your treatment of Dr. Williams' book does much to explain the indifference you mention in your first sentence...
Scrymgeour is pronoonced Skrimjer as it was when th' Heilanders defeated th' Sassan-ach at Bannockburn. aye an' at Prestonpans ferbye (an' if ye dare mention Flodden Field or Culloden, I'll slit yer throats wi' ma rusty Claymore an' feed yer misbegotten flesh tae th' Eagles...
When President Roosevelt presents Congress with the special message on national defense, asking a mammoth air force of 12,000 planes, increased in army munitions, and more new battleships--not to mention the important and dramatic details--he will be asking for the means of implementing his revitalized foreign policy of resistance to dictatorships. "Implementation" is often merely a convenient euphemism referring to war. And yet, though the fundamental purpose of the new rearmament may be diplomatic and not defensive, it does not follow, as some pacifists and isolationists would have us believe, that the President is leading the country...
...speakers' table, got hold of a copy of the speech, telephoned Berlin. At 7 p.m. Ambassador von Dirksen notified 25 obedient Nazi newsmen not to attend, and telephoned his "regrets" to the association. The Ambassador "felt an embarrassing situation might arise if in the course of the evening mention were made of subjects entailing criticism of German affairs...
Many points of possible Franco-German friction were left hanging. Nothing whatever was said about German (or Axial) claims to French colonies (like Algeria), protectorates (like Tunis) or mandated territories (like Cameroon, formerly German). Nor was there any mention of the moribund but unrenounced treaty of mutual aid between France and Russia, always a sore point with Germany. However, three days later the Chamber of Deputies voted (315-to-241) confidence in Premier Daladier's foreign policies, of which the French-German "friendship"' declaration is a keystone. Strangely, it was from the Right, which for 15 years scorned...