Word: stabbings
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...names of Ethel Barrymore, Vincent Sheean and Guthrie McClintic, collected under the head of "International Incident," sound like an eternally perfect triangle, but the illusion is unfortunately brief. In his first stab at playwrighting Mr. Sheean has far from lived up to his share of the bargain. Luckily, though, his chief character is in the hands of Miss Barrymore, who makes every minute of her presence a treat...
This was a direct challenge to Rickard Sandler's old friend, Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson. The pained expression on the Prime Minister's face suggested that he considered it a stab in the back. Most members of the Riksdag thought it was certainly a bid for all those who want Sweden openly to enter the war against Russia to rally around Rickard Sandler. For the first time he disclosed the reason for his resignation last month, admitting that he wanted to send an expeditionary force of 10,000 men to the Aland Islands, which scheme Prime Minister...
Duroure plays suave army politics, gets himself talked about as a coming saviour in the wire-pulling Paris salon of Mme Godorp, Gurau's mistress, whose friends are out to stab Joffre in the back over a rumored neglect to fortify Verdun...
...agonizing stab in the shoulder, a strangling sensation in the throat, lightning pains down the left arm, a drenching sweat, a cold grey face-over it all an "indescribable feeling of anguish and a sense of imminent dissolution angor animi." This is the classic picture of the dread angina pectoris (heart attack). Rapidly on the increase, angina pectoris (usually connected with diseases of the heart's arteries) claims over 10,000 victims in the U. S. every year, mostly middle-aged professional men (doctors are especially vulnerable) who work, eat, smoke, drink too hard...
...Widow Pilsudski last week: "No one believes Hitler's speeches of good will. That man pays lip homage to my husband and surveys around him the destruction of the Marshal's life work. . . . Poland fought to the last. If it had not been for Russia's stab in the back we could have held the Germans. ... I am proud of the way in which my country behaved in the hours of danger." This week the British Foreign Office is to give a State banquet for August Zaleski, Foreign Minister in the Sikorski Cabinet...