Word: standings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the Daughters of the American Revolution recently denied the use of their Washington hall to Negro Singer Marian Anderson, and because of their consistently illiberal stand on political, economic and constitutional questions, we recommend that their name be changed to the Defenders of the American Reaction...
...Regardless of how the family might feel about it, the fact of the matter is that out here you can't stop people insisting that your pa has got to stand for a third term...
...Herr Hitler dispatched to Signor Benito Mussolini a message assuring him that the German people would "stand shoulder to shoulder with the battle-proved Italian nation in defense against all hateful and incomprehensible attempts to restrict the justified will for living of our two peoples...
...impersonators of Sherlock Holmes must stand comparison with William Gillette, who created the role on the stage. Basil Rathbone acquits himself fully as creditably as John Barrymore, his cinema predecessor. The only serious bit of miscasting in The Hound of the Baskervilles is in the title role. The proper selection, obviously, would have been a calf-sized Norwegian elkhound; equipped with fright wig and false fangs. Instead, Associate Producer Gene Markey, perhaps in the delightful confusion attendant on his recent marriage to Hedy Lamarr, put his O.K. on a friendly old Great Dane named Chief, who, despite all his yelpings...
...flair for anecdote, a willingness to think for himself. He once wrote to the hard-boiled sage of Baltimore, H. L. Mencken, suggesting that condemned criminals be given their choice of execution or submitting themselves as subjects for medical research. Mencken advised him that U. S. sentimentality would never stand for such a procedure...