Word: nods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appears bimonthly, has an average circulation of 50,000 which occasionally spurts to 100,000. Tall, handsome, 47, author of four novels, Editor Galtier-Boissière is famed as a gourmet and as the best-dressed of French literati. His immunity from libel suits makes knowing Frenchmen nod, credit his exposures with deadly accuracy...
...inside, Journalist Sullivan began to read accounts of some of them and say to himself, "That was not the way it happened." History, he concluded, can never be rightly written from documents alone. Too much happens behind the scenes, too much is decided by a passing word or nod of the head, too many varying accounts are put forward by self-justifying participants. In September 1923 Mark Sullivan hired his secretary's brother as assistant, set out to carry on approximately where Twenty Years of the Republic had left off. In the enormous task which he had set himself...
...That her interest in Italy's Ethiopian occupation is entirely selfish, else why did she so cavalierly shrug her shoulders at Japan's machinations in Manchuria, meanwhile leaving the U.S. "out on the limb" in precarious single protest. 5) That not content with getting the nod from the League, she is attempting to lead this country step by step into a morass of commitments and implied "community of interest" to a point where a last desperate jump backward will only find us stuck in the gumbo of our own stupidity. 6) And lastly, that the only thing worse...
Artistically unlearned but psychologically profound, this made millions of Germans nod approvingly, and nobody could deny that Herr Hitler last week laid the cornerstone of a Party Convention Hall which will take some ten years to build, will hold 60,000 Nazis, and, according to them, will stand for 1,000 years. The Little Man may not know much about Art but he knows what most Germans like
Ruthless in defense of the franc, M. Tannery breathed the word which recently barred from France smart Lieut. Colonel Francis Norris, a suave British bear raider. Last week a nod from Governor Tannery expelled another British bear, 27-year-old Serge Rubenstein, brilliant Cambridge economist and founder of Paris' Franco-Asiatic Bank. A third young man who sold too many francs short to suit Gold Cock Tannery was Bertrand Coles Neidecker, fugitive U. S. founder of Paris' closed Travelers Bank (TIME...