Word: redrawn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrath and petulance, whereas nothing has become more evident than that he has followed a straight line of policy. He has long been pictured as emotionally unbalanced, but probably few men in public life have their emotions so completely under control. The man who in six short years has redrawn the map of Europe, overturned the old standards of political behavior and made the world listen to his every word, can turn his emotions on and off at will...
Last December 31, Cartoonist Kirby's New Year's cartoon appeared in the World-Telegram crudely redrawn, his 1939 baby made fatter and healthier than Kirby had meant him to be. Cartoonist Kirby walked out of the office, and for a month no Kirby cartoon appeared. Roy Howard talked him into going back to work, promised that his cartoons would not be mutilated again. Kirby stayed on, missing his friends, of whom only a sulking Broun was left...
...could have engaged in a war of indefinite duration," Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax countered to the House of Lords. "If we had won, nobody, in settling the boundaries of Czechoslovakia, would have redrawn them as they were left by the Treaty of Versailles." Lord Halifax said the reason why Russia was not invited to Munich was that, if she had been, then neither Germany nor Italy would have attended. Concluded the tall, ascetic Viscount, who has a nationwide British reputation in Church circles for spirituality and moral leadership: "I have taken no decision which, on all the facts...
Frederic William Goudy's interest in the shape and style of letters started as a child when he decorated his Sunday School room with texts redrawn from specimen letters in an old type book and cut out of fancy wallpaper. As bookkeeper, clerk, unsuccessful publisher, ad vertising artist, he never lost interest in letters. From Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers, other famed printers and designers have built great reputations on the strength of two or three original alphabets. In the centre of the Goudy exhibition last week a streamer list hung from a column. It started with Camelot, 1896, ended...
...about "a President who thinks he always has to be doing something, right or wrong." The college professors President Roosevelt had taken into high office were scorned as "second-raters." Complaints were made that the bills sent up from the White House were messily drafted, always had to be redrawn. The House had got into the habit of railroading major legislation through one day a week and blowing off political steam the other five. Its committee discharge rule was stiffened as a precaution against revolt. The President had been five weeks in the White House and yet his brand...