Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspaper owners and editors are stripped of power to discharge members of their staffs "for reasons of their own," can and must do so only for reasons of state. Disputes will be settled by a Reich Press Court, the judges to be appointed by Dr. Goebbels. Ended is the peculiar German system under which each newspaper had a so-called "responsible editor"-usually the office bum-who stood ready to go to jail for mistakes or libels committed by the staff. From now on every German journalist is legally responsible to and must uphold the State...
...these have been furnished by Georg Dimitroff, the Bulgarian Communist who is both defendant and lawyer in his own defence. Dimitroff has been a thorn in the red-robed sides of the presiding judges because of his unfortunate custom of interposing questions to the witnesses and assailing the peculiar methods of the court. On several occasions, after he had taken over the procedure and cross-examined Nazis into embarassing admissions, the session was hurriedly adjourned to prevent more of it. It became so much of a habit with the prosecution...
...insists that the artist stands in need of appreciation, but never of criticism. This has been sufficient to deter many of the faculty; Sherwood Anderson, most apt among her pupils, stylizes, and Ernest Hemingway, imitates, her. In "Axel's Castle," Mr. Edmund Wilson makes some attempt to isolate her peculiar position in the Symbolist movement; he quotes, he explains a poem. But her personal development glimmers through his words with an agonizing inconstancy that is almost caprice. The spirit of Gertrude Stein has been caught most surely in the plastic arts with which she has so deep an affinity...
...CRIME wasted precious time yesterday afternoon waiting for the New England dignitaries to come out into the open from their secret revels in University Hall. Greeted by the undignified rattle of dishes from the upstairs windows, and by the very halting emergence of notables, the editors formed their peculiar and untimely opinion that they were in favor of a wholesale inauguration or none at all. They wanted a big jamboree at which students might roam; eating sandwiches and looking around for the new president...
Jail is the penalty for shouting "Heil Hitler!" ("Hail Hitler!") or any other Nazi slogan in Czechoslovakia. Last week Prague chuckled at the zeal of a town judge in Jagerndorf. Before the judge was brought a prosperous Silesian businessman arrested in peculiar circumstances. He pleaded that the wind had blown off his hat, that he was chasing it shouting "Mein Hütle!" ("My hat!"). "You were not!" snapped the arresting policeman. "You were yelling 'Heil Hitler!'" Taking the policeman's word, the judge sentenced the hat-chaser to one month in jail...