Word: somes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knitting became the acceptable conversational 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...
"Two of the less attractive characteristics of the German are his inability either to see any side of a question except his own, or to understand the meaning of moderation. . . . Herr Hitler could see no mean between rendering the Czechs innocuous as a potential enemy and destroying their liberty as...
"The Ides of March constituted the parting of the ways and were directly responsible for everything which happened thereafter. Thenceforward no small nation in Europe could feel itself secure from some new adaptation of Nazi racial superiority and jungle law. . . .
"If he could have secured his objectives by this display of force he might have been content for the moment, with all the additional prestige which another bloodless success would have procured for him with his own people. But it would only have been to start again once the world...
"One of Herr Hitler's greatest drawbacks is that, except for two official visits to Italy, he has never traveled abroad. For his knowledge of British mentality he consequently relied on Herr von Ribbentrop as an ex-Ambassador to Britain, who spoke both French and English, and who had...