Word: scape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Comintern manifesto declared that "the ruling classes of Britain, France and Germany are waging war for world domination," while hotheaded Georgi Dimitroff, Bulgarian-born Secretary of the Comintern, scape-goat-elect of the Reichstag fire and personal enemy of Field Marshal Hermann Göring, adopted a "plague-o'-both-your-houses" attitude. In a signed article in the quarterly Communist International, Tovarish Dimitroff performed the neatest logical trick of the week: he called Germany the original aggressor in World War II, said that after the Nazis signed their famed non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union the aggressors...
...substitute is alcohol. ("What is said about alcohol." begins a prologue, "comes mostly from people who stand in a Platonic relationship to narcotics.") As they pour out their bawdy yarns, their pasts of incest, arson, rape, miscellaneous sadism, the reader grudgingly admits a growing sympathy for the preacher. No scape goat ever had such a gang so unremittingly against...
When Sir Samuel was forced out of office some few weeks ago, many felt that he had been both the victim of typical Laval manoevres, and the scape-goat of the highly embarrassed British government. His resignation saved the day, although it has been intimated that Hoare and Eden were not on particularly good terms; Eden being fanatically devoted to the League and seeing in Hoare's attempt to sell Ethiopia out virtual imperilling of the League's future. However, Hoare and Eden will not have an opportunity to cross each other's bows, for Eden will remain in charge...
...upon the benevolent Society of St. Tammany. Disinherited by the national democratic organization, harried by a Rooseveltian governor in Albany, and finally, in the ultimate cataclysm, kicked out of the city feed troughs, the society took to sack-cloth and ashes, fixed a Day of Atonement, and picked a Scape-goat...
Henry V. Hubbard '97, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning, Chairman of the Council of the School of City Planning, authority on land-scape architecture, and editor of several architectural magazines, has been elected a Trustee of the American Academy in Rome. Professor Hubbard succeeds the late Ferrucio Vitale...