Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing I am certain. Those who are having their laugh now at Governor Dickinson's expense better start patching their moral fences-if they have any-because men like Dickinson are going to have the last laugh. What this country and world need is a Moral Rearmament...
...nerves that had raged through the pre-War summer. No Polish ally backed down. Isolated Germany began the fighting. No friend moved to aid her in the 26 countries of Europe, and although a swift Polish victory could draw them in, none moved as the talking stopped, the shooting started. More completely alone than any great power at the start of any great war, Germany plunged into conflict so vast that victory for her could only mean, not that a lightning war was irresistible, but that Adolf Hitler had measured himself against Napoleon...
...potent, aggressive stagehands' union (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes) has had its eye on the plushy performers' unions (allied in the Associated Actors & Artistes of America). Between them, white-collar A. A. A. A. and no-collar I. A. T. S. E. are in a position to start such a strike as the U. S. entertainment industry has never experienced, and all summer it has been touch-&-go whether their long-simmering jurisdictional disputes could be settled without war. Last week came the crisis all showfolk have been dreading...
...Chicago corporation lawyer, Fearing got his literary start as winner of a $50 poetry prize at the University of Wisconsin, where he once went into bankruptcy and appointed a classmate as receiver. His early career in Manhattan consisted of writing verse and pulp stories, of writing home for money. Married in 1933, and now father of a wise four-year-old son, Fearing has increased both his weight and poetry earnings. (He observes smugly of his latest photograph that it makes him look like an Italian gangster.) In 1936 and again in 1938 he was awarded a $2,000 Guggenheim...
Author Train takes his best pokes at screwball laws. Samples: a Los Angeles ordinance forbidding "more than one person bathing in or occupying a bathtub at the same time"; a statute stating that "when two trains approach each other at a crossing, both shall stop and neither shall start until the other has gone...