Word: reines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berlin dwellers had no specially constructed air-raid shelters. They had been told it would be enough to go to a rein forced room in their basements, or just stay indoors while anti-aircraft guns, with which Berlin apartment houses and office buildings ostentatiously bristled, would tear to bits any Britisher who dared the Reich's might...
...clothes, her old portable sewing machine is still taken along from thrifty force of habit. At Buckingham Palace, she as Mrs. Simpson induced King Edward to make drastic housekeeping economies, and at Government House in Nassau last week the staff expected to be held on a tight rein...
...play shows everywhere a slackened rein. It lacks entrails, it lacks sense of direction, it offers no weightier message than that Heaven Helps Those Who Help Themselves. Instead of the greasy, indignant, impoverished out-of-jointers who formerly served Odets as a kind of Nick-the-Greek chorus, Night Music offers a benevolent detective, half Mr. Fixit, half Dutch uncle, who chants to the lovers of the Land of Opportunity. And not one of Odets' three dozen characters cuts in with...
Such a trend is healthy; it makes for flexibility in government, and also for efficiency in crisis times. But it is also dangerous; it is susceptible of abuse, and easily degenerates into personal despotism. The NRA was a horrible example. What is needed is a check-rein, a body to sit in judgment on the judicial angles of the work of a Labor Relations Board or a Federal Communications Commission. Obviously, the Supreme Court is that body. Recent cases involving the NLRB show a tendency to recognize its new duty. Necessary now is only increasing recognition that, in the Chief...