Word: reale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appeasement, obviously, was in order. Prime Minister Chamberlain, the Great Appeaser, deciding it might be a good idea to have a heart-to-heart chat with the real article, imported two burly miners named Scaife and Spouge from Yorkshire. As soon as they reached London, Scaife and Spouge made a beeline for Madame Tussaud's waxworks to get used to rubbing elbows with the great. At No. 10 Downing Street that afternoon they rubbed elbows with 400 non-waxwork lords, ladies, ministers, M.P.s. Scaife told the Prime Minister that before he left home his granddaughter had asked: "Will Hitler...
...personality with more enlightenment and justice than any pro or con writers have been able to do. His everlasting self-distrust, compensatory self-assertion, slowness and difficulty with his medium they freely concede. But Cezanne's knowledge of painting and the profound calculation and power of his real triumphs they fully establish. Not only the effect of these paintings, which other critics have expressed not quite so well: "Fundamentally they are static, not inert or dead, but active as a tower, a pier or a buttress is active. . . . Composed not only in the usual sense of having their parts...
Most economists agree that sustained U. S. recovery depends on a real rise in demand for producer goods. Last week there were signs of such a rise. Meanwhile, General Motors' report on 1938 earnings brought home last year's ominous disparity between recovery in consumer and producer goods...
...company's annual report. Though the retail division's profit was down from $5,029,090 in 1937 to $3,940,099, Mr. McBain's manufacturing division came back from 1937's $5,679,209 loss to net a cozy $138,165. Even the real-estate division, only one still headed by a McKinsey man, showed a profit...
...Schoenberg in the 128-pound class showed his real ability Saturday as he decisively defeated Harry Zaret in the second match of the afternoon. He was followed by Al Richter at 136, who was outwrestled by Jim Frost of Columbia...