Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chester, president of the General Foods Co., and Ernest T. Weir, head of the big Weirton Steel Co., have both issued statements within the past month to the effect that "American business does not like war because it knows that war is bad business." They went on to say that industrial leaders in this country realize that a war boom is disastrous in the long run, and that they would act accordingly...
...topic at Mayfair dinner tables, even male ARPers knitting to pass the time. Female knitters are called Sister Susies after the popular World War I song: Sister Susie's sewing shirts for soldiers, Such skill at sewing shirts our shy young sister Susie shows, Some soldiers send epistles, Say they'd sooner sleep in thistles, Than the saucy soft short shirts for soldiers sister Susie sews...
...this dispatch on this aspect of Herr Hitler's mentality and character. But he combined, as I fancy many Germans do, admiration for the British race with envy of their achievements and hatred of their opposition to Germany's excessive aspirations. It is no exaggeration to say that he assiduously courted Great Britain, both as representing the aristocracy and most successful of the Nordic races, and as constituting the only seriously dangerous obstacle to his own far-reaching plan of German domination in Europe. This is evident in Mein Kampf, and, in spite of what he regarded...
...girl who sways a murder-trial jury (TIME, July 24), Ladies and Gentlemen is least feeble during its comedy scenes, when it tweaks the noses of various goofy jurors. As for its love scenes, two people in love may use baby talk, speak in code, communicate through music, or say nothing at all; but (even when on jury duty) they do not talk, as in Ladies and Gentlemen, on stilts...
...nothing to say, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but their silence was eloquent. As frontline officers between 1914 and 1918, their experiences with the universal human activity gave rise to the two straightest and grimmest accounts of World War I produced in England, respectively Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Goodbye to All That. Last week Sassoon was in seclusion; Graves had volunteered again...