Word: standing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been planned ahead of time to create the utmost mystery, it could hardly have been improved upon. As melodrama, as a spectacle-as comedy as low as slapstick, and as tragedy as elevated as the warfare of the gods-as a week of history to stand beside the week that Cortes first invaded Mexico, as a horror story terrifying enough to blur the strongest mind-in all ways last week's news piled sensation on sensation until its followers turned away with a yawn...
...slight rap at the Allies, though it was, it did not sound as if Il Duce expected peace. He praised the wisdom of Britain and France in not declaring war on Russia (but wondered, in that case, why they were still fighting Germany). Then he announced Italy's stand: "My policy was fixed in the declaration of September 1, and there is no reason to change it." In other words, Italy would stay neutral unless attacked...
...Nazi, Rudolf Hess, was reported making a tour of the entire Westwall. The chief of the Nazi labor battalions, Robert Ley, was known to be here & there behind the Wall, driving his men to complete and strengthen the fortifications behind which Germany was preparing either a permanent stand or a counteroffensive the nature of which was darkly dramatized by A. Hitler's reference in Danzig to "a weapon with which we cannot be attacked...
...Times, Alan Patrick Herbert, M.P., Punch contributor, cracked: "Those who supported and may still support Dr. Frank Buchman will no doubt like to be reminded now of one of the Doctor's most profound and famous sayings: 'Thank God for a man like Adolf Hitler who will stand against the anti-Christ of Communism.' I am, Sir, your obedient servant...
...Collins. 59, Scottish soldier of fortune; in Vicksburg, Miss. His career included action in South Africa with the British Army, marriage with one U. S. heiress and three foiled elopements with another (the fourth succeeded), World War decoration by England, France and Canada, extradition in 1923 to India to stand trial for an $18,000 jewelry fraud (later acquitted), eventual domestication with a third wife in Mississippi...