Word: partes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skill, which the Germans show in war, will not free them from the reproach of Naziism with its intolerance and brutality," cried Winston Churchill month ago. Vexed, Mrs. Walter D. Lamar, retiring president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, last week retorted: "That insult to the best part of America shows both ignorance and stupidity. . . ." Hastily Mr. Churchill's secretaries rushed off answers to letter-writing Southerners, assured them that Mr. Churchill had meant to draw no "analogy...
...fixing things would be to have someone like Oswald Garrison Villard for Pope. He devotes more than 300 pages to accusing Catholic churchmen and laymen of all manner of misdeeds-pressure against the press and the cinema, devious activities in politics, assaults on civil liberties-which, though in part damaging, are not all germane to the subject. Privately last week, George Seldes admitted to friends that he was annoyed: for at least the first week after publication, The Catholic Crisis was not even mentioned in Manhattan newspapers...
...such second-grader is athletic, tooth-brush-mustached William Primrose, who plays the principal viola part in Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony. Last week Primrose temporarily added himself to the world-famed Budapest Quartet (TIME, Nov. 13) to play quintets for Manhattan's persnickety New Friends of Music...
...these things showed a remarkable restraint on the part of U. S. speculators (save for the "little fellows" whose odd lot purchases have exceeded their sales for the past month). U. S. business still waited to see whether consumption would catch up with increased production, whether real war orders would come to keep U. S. factories busy before another inventory recession slowed them down...
...part, Author Thorp thinks, the result is educational. "The new rich . . . wanted to know all about high-powered cars, airplanes, ocean liners, yachts, villas, exotic food, wine, jewels, Paris dresses, perfect servants; and De Mille told them...