Word: standingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hall Putsch, Actor Muenz gibed: "I was in the street when the machine guns began to fire. Immediately Hitler was down on his face. His General, Franz Ritter von Epp, got disgusted and shouted: 'What's the matter with you? You are supposed to be a soldier. Stand up. The people want to see you. . . .' [Hitler] was a simple, very simple, sick, no crazy man. ... I'd love to kill...
...little more than propaganda. There was no authentic evidence of revolt in Germany last week, or even of the desire to revolt. Life had merely become harder. In Berlin, where last fortnight crowds appeared stunned and silent, the crowds had disappeared. The people were too busy to stand in crowds. Women were beginning to run trams and busses as men went to the front (during a blackout two streetcars crashed headon, injuring ten passengers). Women sold newspapers and delivered mail. The Nazi uniform all but disappeared from the streets and field grey took its place. The Army had taken over...
...steady cinema customers of the U. S. India makes only 50% of its pictures, Japan only 35%, Italy, Yugoslavia, Mexico, Sweden and the South American countries all less than 10%. Playing this probability for perhaps more than it was worth, the Hollywood Reporter last week exulted: "U. S. Fix Stand To Capture 99% of World Market...
...POLAND: KEY TO EUROPE-Raymond Leslie Buell-Knopf ($3). History has now severely blue-penciled certain passages* in Poland: Key to Europe, by the ex-head of the Foreign Policy Association, now Round Table Editor of FORTUNE. Wonder is, however, that so much of the text can still stand. Candid, exhaustive, lucid, this is still by all odds the best available book on Poland, Europe's "Great Unpredictable...
Among earlier volumes, published since Munich, the following, although badly out of date in spots, stand out as the most competent...