Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Absurd as it was for a statesman of Semitic descent to promote antiSemitism, the discovery of Jewish blood provided the excuse rather than the reason for the Imredy resignation. The Premier was already on his way out. Leading politicians, the powerful Catholic Church, even some Cabinet colleagues were glad...
...brawny lad of 20 before he heard there were any good living poets in Ireland, he published his first poems shortly after in the Irish Statesman, made a pilgrimage to Dublin. Tramping back to Mucker pronouncing the Irish gods and heroes dead, the fairies driven underground, Poet Kavanagh concluded: "Writers leave Ireland because sentimental praise, or hysterical pietarian dispraise, is no use in the mouth of a hungry...
...statesman should be known by one or two features, not for a variety. Monocle and orchid were priceless assets to Joseph Chamberlain. Everyone thought of Gladstone in terms of collars. . . . Anthony Eden's adoption of the Foreign Office hat secured him. . . . But Churchill! What protean changes his hats represent, embracing official and naval cocked hats, army pillbox, hussars' busby, service cap, steel helmet, sombrero, Oxford degree hat, artists' berets and paper party hats...
...Occidental audiences, the heroine of Sable Cicada (Violet Koo) represents a combination of Pocahontas, Martha Washington, Molly Pitcher and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. Foster daughter of an elderly statesman, she patriotically undertakes to relieve his political difficulties by becoming simultaneously concubine to the fat old Prime Minister and fiancee to the Prime Minister's handsome young generalissimo, thus causing internal combustion that brings in a new ministry...
...Ciano warmly greeted Lord Halifax. There was nothing of the lavish display put on in Rome for Adolf Hitler's visits. Total cost of Mr. Chamberlain's three-day entertainment was only $5,000. But the Italian people, many of whom believe that it was the British statesman and not II Duce who kept them out of a war in September, gave Mr. Chamberlain a warm welcome. Vivas were chalked on doorsteps and wherever Mr. Chamberlain went he was greeted with genuine hand claps. Rome's supply of umbrellas was bought...