Word: pendentive
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...Paris by his brother Archduke Otto, 26, the Habsburg Pretender, with an offer to recruit a full division of Austrian refugees and send them to fight on the Western Front if Britain and France will announce as one of their war aims "restoration of Austria as an inde pendent State." Already in France with a similar proposal was Austria's onetime Heimwehr troop leader and Vice Chancellor, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, onetime friend of Adolf Hitler, who recently ordered confiscated 13 castles in Austria belonging to the Prince...
...hatchet-work of primary politics, rugged, mercurial Tommy the Cork is the partner who is getting it done. (Shy, cool Partner Cohen jaunted to Europe last week.) Putting inde-goddam-pendent journalists up to playing his game is one of his methods. The journalistic team of Drew Pearson & Robert S. Allen are Tom Corcoran's natural mouthpieces; his temperature and blood pressure are accurately reflected in what they have to say to their syndicate readers daily. This is not just because Allen is the Neanderthal type of Liberal and Pearson the parlor mauve type-a perfect team-but because...
...that their lickspit Premier Tewfik Nessim Pasha should at least make the turning to Alexandria into Britain's main Mediterranean war base the occasion for wangling some heavy palm oil out of his and Egypt's master, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson. British High Commissioner to the Inde pendent Kingdom of Egypt...
...Married at 19, she has one daughter, is now separated from her husband. She believes she is the only English authoress who both keeps house and pursues her literary career with out family or marital support. Interested in child psychology, education, Communism, she is a member of the Inde pendent Labor Party, writes regularly for I. L. P.'s New Leader. Books: Pilgrims, Confessions & Impressions, Hunger of the Sea, Sounding Brass, Ragged Banners, Common-sense and the Child...
...self-denying covenants contained in the Nine-Power Treaty . . . against military aggrandizement at the expense of China. One cannot discuss the possibility of modifying or abrogating the provisions of the Nine-Power Treaty without considering at the same time the other promises upon which they were really de-pendent." In these carefully guarded words lay Secretary Stimson's most potent threat against Japan and its Shanghai gesture. In non-diplomatic language what Mr. Stimson was really saying was this: Japan has violated the Nine-Power Treaty; if that pact is scrapped, the U. S. would be justified in scrapping...