Word: paradox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Candidates. Still another paradox of last week's campaign was that the only blocs with an effective working agreement were those of the Left. For the first time since 1918, Communists, Socialists and Radical-Socialists were united in a "Front Populaire" under the leadership of lean Socialist Leon Blum, who some believe may be next Premier of France. A paradox himself, cultivated Socialist Blum is a teetotaler whose constituency is at Narbonne, in the Department of Aude, centre of the cheap red wine district where the vineyard workers are their own best customers. Fortunately for Socialist Blum...
Anyone delighted by the richness of British character could find it served up on a heaping platter in the House of Commons last week, steaming with honest emotion, thick with puzzlement, piquant with paradox and much like the late Diamond Jim Brady's favorite fish sauce which was so good that "if you poured some of it over a turkish towel, you could eat it all." Epicures for this sort of dish, Edward of Wales and the Soviet Ambassador sat down, elbow-to-elbow, just above the House of Commons' clock...
Thus was broached in paradox one of the "real issues" in British life today, all of which were dodged in the recent general election by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. So desperate are conditions in the coal fields that only some 700,000 miners remain who could vote today, whereas there were 1,125,000 in 1926-the year in which the coal strike provoked the General Strike...