Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prince Konoye, though inexperienced in administration, promptly accepted this time. Within a few hours he sat down before a telephone, rang up the prospective ministers of what was soon tagged "The Telephone Cabinet." From the first, one thing was clear: the military Government could not be replaced by an out-&-out liberal one. In a brief radio speech in which he revealed an attractive radio personality, the new Premier declared that he would seek to "heal strife and eliminate friction." This meant that he had to conciliate the Army, recognize the disgruntled civilian parties, win the sympathy of the electorate...
Between Italian Fascism and its German imitation, one of the marked differences has been the Italians' unconcern about Jews. A small but ominous clap of anti-Semitic thunder rang out in Italy last week. Writing in II Duce's Milan newspaper Popolo d'ltalia Editorial Writer Oreste Gregorio declared: ''[Jews in Italy] must either publicly declare themselves enemies-we mean enemies-of all anti-Fascist Hebrewism ... or renounce their Italian citizenship and residence. . . . They' must abandon any participation in the Zionist movement for a national Jewish home in Palestine ... which would tend to create...
Viva il Presidente! Viva il Presidente! rang the streets of Castel Gandolfo, the Papal summer residence, as excited Italian villagers last week cheered the arrival of a man they thought was president...
...rang the deep voice of Chief Boatswain's Mate Frederick J. Tobin, in charge of the ground crew: "Navy men, stand fast! We've got to get those people out of there!" With tremendous bravery, scores of gobs and civilians dashed headlong back to the conflagration. Though the heat was so intense that thermometers rose in the Navy Aerological School 500 yd. away, the rescuers charged into the control cabin and the passenger quarters. As one observer put it: "Those boys dived into the flames like dogs after rabbits!" Someone found Captain Lehmann, his clothes frizzled...
...voice of William Shakespeare rang out twice last week in the high courts of two States as that widely informed Elizabethan's opinion was cited in a pair of widely different cases. In Indiana, the Bard's side won. In New York it lost...