Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Czecho-Slovakia last fall was the antipathy of the British ruling class toward the U.S.S.R., CzechoSlovakia's nearest friend. Even though they know that probably no combination in Europe could beat France, Britain and Russia, most British bigwigs hate and fear "the Bolshies." Significant it was, therefore, when Prime Minister Chamberlain and most of his Cabinet turned up last week at a Soviet Embassy reception given by Soviet Ambassador Ivan M. Maisky. Laborite James Ramsay MacDonald was the last British Prime Minister to tread that ground...
...Prime Minister warned M.P.s (and the world) that continued astronomical expenditures for arms would mean eventual bankruptcy for all nations, but implied that Britain could stave off going broke longer than Germany...
...round out the series of warnings to totalitarian nations that John Bull's full-sized helmet was ready to go in the ring, Prime Minister Chamberlain, in a speech in Lancashire, delved into Shakespeare's King John, pulled out this quotation...
...committee asked no ruralite what his favorite programs were, but each household was asked whether it kept on hand any packaged cereals, coffee, cleanser; canned soup, milk, tomato or fruit juice; wrapped bread, kitchen or toilet soap; toothpaste or powder, face powder, lipstick or rouge. These are prime radio-advertised products. When the report was published the answers to this question were not included. The explanation: "It was believed . . . that pride would tend to inflate the figures of usage, particularly of products like lipstick and rouge, face powder...
...feeling to which an extraordinary number of people admit, that they smoke too much-that cigarets are a waste of money and so forth. . . . In sensitive men and women this mental conflict . . . may do much to take the edge off that zest for living which is supposedly normal." Prime cause of smokers' fatigue, concluded the Lancet, is not nicotine but "vague and subjective" feelings of guilt...