Word: omelet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the Founding Fathers may not have anticipated it, political parties and pressure groups are today the very life of the American governmental process. To attempt to study our system without studying its parties and pressures is to try to make an omelet when you haven...
Lutheranism in the U. S. has no more unity than a basket of eggs. To give it the unity of an omelet has long been the dream of many a Lutheran-a dream partly realized in 1918, when several Lutheran bodies were merged into the United Lutheran Church, largest (1,599,102 baptized members) in the land. Last week United Lutherans held their 11th biennial conference in Baltimore. As always, they elected bald, goateed, precise Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel of Manhattan to be their president. As always, Dr. Knubel, now 68, accepted...
...Adolf Hitler has not obtained any lands beyond Germany's frontiers in Europe or the return of any colonies overseas. He has smashed the numerous, pettifogging States which cluttered up the Reich from an administrative point of view, breaking German eggs right and left to make the omelet of a strongly centralized, potentially efficient Nazi Realm...
Sons o' Guns (Warner Bros.). People who are amused by the fact that Joe E. Brown's mouth resembles an omelet will not mind this version of a musicomedy in which the late Jack Donahue danced in 1929-30. Reluctantly embroiled in the War, Brown participates in a number of gags which culminate in his impersonating a British officer, getting involved in a battle, impersonating a German officer, bringing a German regiment back to the U. S. lines. Good pantomime: Brown, convinced that he is to be shot, rehearsing the way he will smoke a last cigaret with...
...those of Comrade Stalin. On the Politbureau of the Communist Party which rules Russia, Stalin is No. 1, Kaganovich No. 2. When the Five-Year Plan was wallowing among blunders Comrade Kaganovich coined an immortal, all-explanatory slogan, "Why wail over broken eggs when we are making an omelet!" Last week this potent Bolshevik let fly at the regime of a state with which Russia is on diplomatic and officially friendly terms, the Third Reich of Jew-baiting Adolf Hitler...