Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officially-inspired German Press chorused that der Führer had already told the world everything that Mr. Eden wanted to know. The German Foreign Office sat down to take as long as it dared to frame an answer, figuring that the mere passage of time would deflate the so-called Rhineland crisis...
Major-Mayor- The reason General Badoglio did not move into Haile Selassie's Imperial Palace was that it was already pre-empted by a mere major. One of the most potent of Fascist bigwigs is Major Giuseppe Bottai, 40. A War veteran with a brilliant record, he later edited various nationalist papers, joined Benito Mussolini before the March on Rome. So quick was his rise as a party politician that at the age of 34 Giuseppe Bottai was Fascist Minister of Corporations, wielding more power than Il Duce thought good for him. Soon he was kicked upstairs...
...bold attempt, nevertheless, and embodies a real philosophy. The theory of eternal strife assumes a futuristic form as the Age of Science tempestuously follows its course to a "sane and practical" Utopia. Futility, the imperfection of mere humanity, the loss of individuality, and the desire for happiness all rebel against the omnipotence of science, and the final fade-out leaves with us the unanswered question: "The conquest of the universe--or nothing! What shall...
...owned by her husband. Having lived in the hotel rent-free for years, penurious Mrs. Grant was recently ordered to pay $350 a month rent, restrict her use of hotel service to $25 a week. Grumbled she: "I cannot carry on the traditions of the Grant family on a mere $25 a week. ... As Mae West might say, 'They done me wrong.' " In the Manhattan apartment of 30-year-old Pulitzer Prize Dramatist (Men in White) Sidney Kingsley, blonde Actress Doris Dudley (End of Summer), 18-year-old daughter of Radio Theatre Critic Bide Dudley, flounced into...
When North Carolina's Attorney General Romulus Mitchell Saunders rose in the first Democratic National Convention and argued successfully that it would have "a more imposing effect" if candidates were nominated by two-thirds of the delegates instead of by a mere majority, he started something over which Democrats have been wrangling for 104 years. Romulus Saunders was simply doing a job for Boss Andrew Jackson, who thereby made sure that John Caldwell Calhoun did not get the Vice-Presidential nomination away from Martin Van Buren. The first beneficiary of the two-thirds rule became its first victim...