Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although not intended, there could be no greater compliment. Any paper with a long purse can receive pages of wireless. It takes brains to "pad" 50 words, as TIME should know...
...your magazine of May 22 there appears, in a letter from a subscriber on page 8, a quotation from another paper reading as follows...
...Popular Front, largely quoting from Sir Stafford's own writing on the subject during the six years he too had been opposed. It forbade him to appear before the Southport Congress. His supporters began to backslide; two in the House of Commons backed down; another resigned from his paper; four were expelled before the Congress opened. But the Congress overruled the executive, let Sir Stafford speak. Soon the Red Squire joined the retreat at full stride, humbly asked for reinstatement for himself and his four allies, promised "to abide by the decisions of the conference on a Popular Front...
...usually has a luncheon date, to make a speech, receive a medal or talk politics with somebody. After lunch she reads some more, paces around her apartment, with a pencil and a pad of yellow paper in her hand, and generally gets curious about something and starts telephoning people. She runs up tremendous telephone bills calling Washington and London. At teatime people start dropping in: friends, ex perts and refugees. She almost always goes out to dinner, or has a flock of people to her apartment. She seldom talks anything but world affairs and seldom stops talking them. Her husband...
Nazis call their literary brand "steel romanticism" to distinguish it from the foggy fervors of the traditional German romantics. Pet bugbear of Nazi writers is "Jewish realism and intellectualism." Their pet ideal is an Aryan hero who does not yet exist. On paper he is: 1) an individual only in the sense that he is one of a blood community; 2) close to the soil, because his blood community has lived close to it for generations; 3) perfectly poised between these poles of blood and soil, so that his actions are always determined by them, but appear to be instinctive...