Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quoting that line without naming its author, Scripps-Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper sizzled: "I think it is very much to the point to be thinking of our skins-at least to be thinking of those American families whose sons would have to risk their skins." Into the Congressional Record went the Clapper column, six pages after Franklin Roosevelt...
...much as they scrapped what the democracies called economics, the totalitarian countries scrapped what democracies called common sense. To ride the whirlwind of change, solemnly to preach howling absurdities, cheerfully to embrace glaring contradiction-all this served to conceal the war's aims, to hide its agony, to blur its issues. Guns and submarines and planes threatened the national existence of Britain and France. But speeches and explanations were directed like bombs against their reason...
...House of Commons, the Prime Minister observed: "Herr Hitler says much in his speech about the humane 'methods by which he has waged war. I can only say that methods are not made humane by calling them so, and accounts of German bombing of open towns and machine gunning of refugees have shocked the world. . . . Our general purpose in this struggle is well known. It is to redeem Europe from the perpetually recurring fear of German aggression and to enable the peoples of Europe to preserve their independence and liberties. . . . Hitler's speech at Danzig yesterday...
Record. Austria and Czecho-Slovakia did not fight and received no mercy; Poland fought. The third European republic to end within the last year and a half, it had much to fight for. Finicky Westerners complained that Poland's democracy was superficial, Leftists bedazzled by propaganda about collective farms sympathized with its poor peasantry. But Poland had a record of social progress which, in terms of her initial difficulties, seemed as imposing as those of Europe's totalitarian States. Its Sejm, or Parliament, looked feeble compared to London or Washington. But it was Jeffersonian compared to the drilled...
...occupation of Czecho-Slovakia: "The Field Marshal appeared a little confused at [my] personal attack on his own good faith and assured me that he had himself known nothing of the decision before it had been taken. . . . Though I was in a hurry, he insisted on showing me, with much pride, the great structural alterations which he was making in his house at Karinhall and which include a new dining room to hold an incredible number of guests and to be all marble and hung with tapestries. . . . He also produced with pride some drawings of tapestries, mostly representing naked ladies...