Word: speciale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this long parade of error, the work of Vladimir Poliakoff deserves a special float. For 20 years, from his six-storied London house, he has been sending out, under the name of Augur, a series of inside stories, interpretations, explanations, which have made him one of the most highly respected European commentators on foreign affairs. Last month he spoke his mind on Poland. Augur's Polish story...
...Correspondents that controls admission to the galleries, he took the case to the Senate and House Rules Committees, arguing that radio handles news just as newspapers do except for printing it and charging people for it, and that excluding radio from the press galleries was in effect giving special privilege to the printing trades. In the Senate New Jersey's Barbour and Iowa's Gillette, and in the House New Mexico's Jack Dempsey pressed his case. By last week both Rules Committees had decreed that henceforth radio should have "equal facilities" for covering Congress. Last week...
...Bernard Shaw ("You are a poet all right. It can't be helped") and Laureate John Masefield ("I hope you will write more poems like We Burn"). Of herself she said: "Like 'A. E.' and like Housman, I write poetry only when I am in a special state of excitation...
Three weeks ago rambunctious Senator Robert Rice Reynolds of North Carolina introduced a resolution to send William Griffin abroad as a special envoy to remind European nations of their debts. Nobody paid much attention. Fortnight ago Congressman Chauncey W. Reed of Illinois introduced a concurrent resolution in the House. Washington wondered what it was all about, why a pressagent was needed to report William Griffin's progress. Last week half-a-dozen Senators, including two members of the potent Foreign Relations Committee, Georgia's Walter George and Kansas' Arthur Capper, plumped for the resolution. Washington...
...thesis is that the highly evolved and special physiognomy so frequently characteristic of the Jew is correlated with certain equally highly evolved and specialized characteristics of mind, temperament and personality. . . . The purgative force of natural and social selection has been exerted continuously and with increasing severity upon the Jewish people, while it has been abated and nullified in large measure among our own non-Jewish stocks, which have been sheltered, pampered and fostered. . . . We go on merrily and righteously nurturing our 'Aryan' imbeciles, morons and criminals, encouraging them to breed more of their kind, and supporting them...