Word: reale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brains. British Feminist Rebecca West once said: "Before a war military science seems a real science-like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology." British Military Critic Liddell Hart replied: "Perhaps that conclusion is rather hard on astrology." The reason for Liddell Hart's cynicism is fundamentally something that neither free-lance nor professional military critics can measure...
Columnist's Credo. Dorothy Thompson thinks: a) that Roosevelt is headstrong (so is she) but b) has "a real world sense" (and so has she); c) that WPA is unhealthy (it smacks of social work); d) that the democratic ideal is most nearly realized in Vermont ("where the town meeting is still a living, functioning institution," i. e., where democracy functions as in the past); e) that the New Deal is incipient Fascism (she sees dictators in every closet); f) that government should be decentralized (her first seven years in small towns were happy); g) that "the educated female...
...some half dozen on the air) is a cagey, kinky-haired, 38-year-old ex-insurance man named Morris H. Siegel (M. H. to his 52 aides). Into M. H.'s Manhattan and Boston offices (Policyholders' Advisory Council) last year ventured some 40,000 persons with real or fancied insurance problems. Each of them paid $1 for the interview. Some 8,000 became clients-i. e., had their policies cashed or converted and cheaper insurance substituted, sometimes with a spot of recovered cash to boot. For these services, Siegel exacts an average fee of $25. Non-profit consumer...
...personally guaranteed several whacking big bond issues for Chicago real-estate projects in which he was interested...
...Nazi writers have succeeded little better than Nazi drill sergeants in filling rush orders for the model Nazi hero. In real life he might be a nuisance; in a book he is a bore...