Word: roles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Naturally, if Britain were to lose the war, it is likely that India would become the field of competition among other exploiting powers, possibly Germany and Japan, with Soviet Russia assuming the role of champion of the Indian masses...
...Franklin Roosevelt is a changeable, charming, warmhearted, gullible, formidable man. ". . . When crossed he is hard, stubborn, resourceful, relentless," Moley wrote to his sister Nell in 1932. ". . . He seems quite naturally warm and friendly . . . because he just enjoys the pleasant and engaging role, as a charming woman does. . . . The frightening aspect ... is F. D. R.'s great receptivity. So far as I know he makes no effort to check up on anything I or anyone else has told him. I wonder what would happen if we should selfishly try to put things over...
...soon dare to grab back Transylvania from Rumania, but Bulgarians joyously remember a report that Joseph Stalin recently told a Bulgarian delegation in Moscow he would help their country grab back Dobruja. In Tsarist times Russia always posed in the Balkans as "Protector of the Slave." It was this role which brought her into World War I against Austria and then Germany. In World War II, the Soviet Government has been rapidly swallowing Polish territory while describing itself as "neutral." Last week Moscow, in an official declaration to Bucharest, declared that so far as Rumania is concerned Russia will remain...
...Pastor, onetime New York University footballer with a fair-to-middling boxing record, 34,000 fight fans poured into Detroit's Briggs Stadium, paid up to $27.50 a seat. They saw what they expected to see. Fleet-footed Pastor-whose only claim to the challenger's role was the fact that he once lasted ten rounds against Louis-did the turkey trot, Lindy hop, chassé and Suzi-Q to keep out of the champion's waltzing range. Fleet-fisted Louis toppled the challenger every time he caught up: four times in the first round, once...
Dropping his role as France's smartest bartender, 45-year-old World War I Veteran Georges Carpentier, who lasted three rounds with Jack Dempsey in Jersey City in 1921, rejoined the air service...