Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these years, making himself at home to the point of picking his teeth while standing around with Queen Mary and Scottish aristocrats (see cut p. 21). Tough, dynamic General Kondylis is a great admirer of Benito Mussolini and has thought of himself as ruling Greece with a mere fop on the Throne. George II is, however, a first cousin once removed from George V and no fool, though perfectly willing to take a dignified back seat as the flesh & blood emblem of a Constitutional Monarchy. Last week Greece's Dictator had made all arrangements for His Majesty to come...
...prevent wholesale destruction of library books, mere appeals to decency, idle threats, and biteless barks, will do, and have done no good. There must not only be a law, but some method of enforcement...
...Honest Broker" between Britain and Italy, French Premier Pierre Laval has based all his efforts upon convincing His Majesty's Government that the Ethiopian war is no world-shaking matter on which the League's future or Britain's depends but a mere affair of "some localized area." Last week the appearance of this phrase in a speech by Squire Baldwin was a leading development. Though some excited citizens still put the issue to themselves in terms of the necessity of preserving Ethiopian independence at all costs, many a British citizen was commencing to ask himself last...
Secretary Hull, in formulating American policy, has expressed the national temper most successfully. In a radio address, delivered in his name by the Undersecretary of State on Wednesday night, he explained that mere neutrality is not enough, that the United States has a duty to maintain peace, and that this duty should be fulfilled "by the use of our influence, short of becoming involved in the dispute itself." These words are innocuous enough in themselves, as were similar statements made early in the World War or at the time of the less-tragic but equally humiliating Manchurian crisis. They...
...past four years blatant cartoonists have shown Roosevelt, Frankfurter, and the little hot dogs tearing the venerable document into shreds with fiendish delight. Leading editorials have stigmatized Roosevelt as trying to undermine the entire American structure of society by his measures which, they claim, reduce the constitution to a mere shred of out-worn parchment...