Word: remold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time since the beginning of the Sudeten Crisis, Czechoslovakia's Parliament met last week. Although the legislators were substantially those who sat in Parliament before its adjournment, their party line-up was drastically changed. Pressed by Germany to remold" Czechoslovakia along totalitarian lines, the Government, five days before the session met. ordered all parties supporting it to dissolve, join one big State Party for National Unity. The Czech Agrarian and Czech National Socialist groups, the Fascist National League and part of the Czech People's Catholic Party complied. The minority Socialists, Communists and dissident Catholic deputies...
...times a highly sympathetic one. Consequently the current cinema season may well be remembered for the way in which two first-class pictures have revealed two rich and respectable U. S. wives as altogether worthless characters. Dodsworth (TIME. Sept. 28) showed one who lost her husband by trying to remold him in her own pattern of a social climber. Craig's Wife, adapted from the George Kelly Pulitzer Prize play of 1926, shows another who loses her hus band through psychopathic selfishness...
...also been sentenced for revenue law violations. Sharing the same cell, Bigelow and Ward soon became fast friends. They talked over the details of Bigelow's business, discussed ways & means of running it in the future. Said Bigelow to his friend: "I'm going to remold you. You're made of good clay." After eight months, Bigelow was released on parole. Before leaving he made Ward promise to look him up at the end of his term, asked what job he would want. Replied Ward: "Your job, H. H." "All right if you can earn it," said...