Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The streets of Berlin were practically deserted and there was nothing to indicate the beginning of a war which is to decide whether force is to be the sole arbiter in international affairs ; whether international instruments solemnly and freely entered into are to be modified, not by negotiation, but by...
Story of a girl who sways a murder-trial jury (TIME, July 24), Ladies and Gentlemen is least feeble during its comedy scenes, when it tweaks the noses of various goofy jurors. As for its love scenes, two people in love may use baby talk, speak in code, communicate through...
Last week New York City's pugnacious little Mayor LaGuardia (an Episcopalian) banned the picketing of churches. He wrote his Police Commissioner: "There is no labor dispute involved, and in this country, where freedom of religion is guaranteed, theological differences or even philosophical controversies are not contemplated in the...
"The art of war is now borrowing from applied science all the resources that are at the latter's disposal, and there is nothing up to velocipedism that is not contributing to the service of the army. . . . In the use of the military bicycle as practised in England, [suppose...
Two men who had nothing to say, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but their silence was eloquent. As frontline officers between 1914 and 1918, their experiences with the universal human activity gave rise to the two straightest and grimmest accounts of World War I produced in England, respectively Memoirs of...