Word: posed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight Broun celebrated his sist birthday, his 31st year as a newspaperman. A prodigious writer in spite of his pose of indolence, he figured that he had turned out close to 21,000,000 words. He had also managed to paint pictures, run for Congress, organize a labor union, make innumerable speeches, run a little weekly newspaper of his own, remember the Holy Sacrament, spend hours on end eating & drinking with his friends in such Manhattan night spots as the Stork Club...
...which is not the case. Then, too, school-boy minds are very easily swayed; the teacher's words are the gospel truth. Certainly a teacher has a right to present his interpretation of the facts. But he must not substitute this interpretation for the facts themselves; it must not pose as the truth...
...This Army of ours . . . still has the amateur spirit, which is deep in our character as a nation, or perhaps is a pose belonging to a tradition that we are loath to abandon. I cannot imagine the German Army behaving in the same informal, humorous...
...Survivors of the British steamer Sneaton told how they were forced at pistol-point to pose smiling in their life boat while U-boat officers took their pictures...
...foreign policy looked a little shifty, but it was clear as a brook compared with the secret diplomacy of Communist and Fascist States. Its finances looked troubled-but not in comparison with Germany's blocked marks and Russia's financial somersaults. Poland subsidized no agents to pose as friends of the workingman in foreign countries; except for its desperate seizure of Teschen when Germany dismembered Czecho-Slovakia, it grabbed no neighbor's property. Although vague stones in left-wing and Fascist papers long spoke of Poland's aggressive aims, Poland's history was peaceful...