Word: resistible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author of the plot has taken the idea of "Thirteen Women," which crime club addicts remember as the grisly melodrama of Frauenzimmer from a sorority who were all condemned to die mysteriously one after the other. This ingenious device is applied to five gentlemen traveling in Morocco, who impolitely resist the demands of an old beggar for baksheesh, and are therefore cursed with a fate which shall overtake them in order before the next phase of the moon. But the logical French mind can allow no such supernatural fakirs to succeed. One man dies, a newspaper reports the death...
Indiana. Republican Raymond Springer rode circus elephants in an effort to be Governor. But Democratic Paul Vories McNutt, onetime (1928-29) Commander of the American Legion, rode the Roosevelt wave, left him far behind. Ohio. Democratic Governor George White, onetime gold-rusher in the Klondike, managed to resist the popular tide against the "ins" and hold his office against Republican David Sinton Ingalls, young and wealthy, the Navy's only War ace. At the President's request, Governor-reject Ingalls had left the Hoover sub-Cabinet as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics to try and carry...
...would throw his mattress out the window before the proprietor was up in the morning, jump for it and disappear. He was arrested once at a bullfight for squeezing the juice of an orange at a fellow spectator who held his umbrella in the way. He still cannot resist frightening women by suddenly snorting at them like a horse...
...order to resist the present drift towards nationalism vigorous action is necessary. It is the pressure of organized, separate interests which is forcing national politics into protection and is strangling world trade. Until these separate interests are subordinated to the general good of the nation, until nations are governed by true national policy rather than destructive nationalism, no progress is possible. As Sir Arthur Salter sees it, the world is full of governments who fail to govern, if they are to save themselves from destruction they must rid themselves of the dictation of particular private interests and once again assert...
...detachment of the average Harvard man is merely an escape from the necessity of solid work dealing with the problems of today, and preparing for the problems of tomorrow. The Socialist party works toward the revolutionary goal of socialism in our time, using the power of organized workers to resist the violence and lawlessness of the ruling class. If men are willing to work using methods of peace, the folly of violence will not be necessary. continuation of the attitude of indifference can only bring chaos and collapse...