Word: spartanly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference next decided, with Spartan courage and perhaps a dash of self-interest, that a boycott of German goods, though it would hurt German workers for the time being, is after all the best way of helping them, since it might lead to such misery as would promote a revolt against the Nazi State. By a rising vote the delegates pledged members of the Party to buy no German goods, urged them to contribute to the relief of refugees from the "Hitler terror...
Greeks in Chicago sent a cable to Samuel Insull in Athens, inviting him to open "Spartan Day" at Chicago's World's Fair "because there are 120,000,000 people in the United States who would like to see Mr. Insull once more." From Spartan Insull, no word. His wife last week left Athens for Venice...
Firmly pursuing this destiny, Marshal Muto sat in Changchun, subsisting on his Spartan diet of rice, rice, rice, while his sub-commanders conquered the Chinese province of Jehol, added it to Manchukuo (TIME, March 13). Like Marshal Muto his successor General Hishikari is con sidered not a military genius but a safe & sane commander able to guide the exuberance of junior officers and to build up Manchukuo as a state...
...taken to riding a motorcycle, setting informal fashions in dress. Though he sometimes still wears a top hat and cutaway. // Duce decided last week that in the case of lesser Fascist officials even occasional display of such formal clothes should be discouraged. In Rome the Fascist party's Spartan Secretary General, Signer Achille Starace, sent out to all Fascist officials last week the following six-point general guide to official behavior...
...McCormick was neatly pinked by genial Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton. Dean Gauss said he knew only one Red and a few Pinks among Princeton's 2,200 undergraduates. Did Col. McCormick advocate that "we compel all undergraduates to live on the same dead level of Spartan simplicity, and abolish inequalities of wealth?" To Dean Gauss that sounded like Communism. "Why deny to the undergraduates the privileges which Col. McCormick enjoys, if he is lucky enough to have any?" And Dean Gauss pointed out that students do not blame current woes upon Reds or Pinks. "They blame the leaders...