Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back into one solid piece. Belgians were so frightened by what happened to an internally weak Czecho-Slovakia that they crowded to the polls to elect a Parliament of unity, moderation, stability. Most extremist parties lost seats while the moderate Liberals and Catholics gained. Socialists lost more than a quarter of their strength, and the fascist Rexists were almost completely wiped out. Even Eupen, Malmédy and Saint Vith, supposedly ardent pro-Nazi districts nearest Germany, voted 55% nationalist and anti-German...
...Literal translation: His Highness the Lord Paramount, King of Kings, King of Kings, one-quarter-better-than-anyone-else, beautiful Sir Yeshwant, King Holkar, Brave Warrior...
...regain the championship for his alma mater, Harvard's Irving Clark Jr. four days later polished off 24, sucking at an orange after each one. He also offered to eat a bug for a nickel, an angleworm for a dime and a beetle for a quarter...
...METROPOLITAN--Go to "Dodge City" in a reminiscent mood and you will enjoy it, for it will bring back with the crash of a six-shooter those days ten years ago when you slipped down to the neighborhood theatre with a quarter burning a hole in your pocket. This is the western of the 20's recreated faithfully, with all the old thrills and all the old cliches. It has the same story abut the indomitable sheriff who cleans up the toughest town in the West. It has the same bad man whose gang rules the town with a cruel...
Like Thomas Cowan, "Buck" Kester once had a conservative Presbyterian charge (in West Virginia), left it and Presbyterianism together. Now a Congregationalist, he busies himself with lecturing, organizing labor, and escaping from Southern towns which dislike agitators. Once he avoided being lynched by crawling on his belly for a quarter-mile to escape from a Florida town. He explained: ". . . There was nothing to be gained by staying and I was scared." Against the likes of "Buck" Kester, Arkansas and Mississippi planters protested last February, publicly appealing to Southern churches "not to make their tenants and sharecroppers class-conscious...