Word: stemming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Raking the brownshirts' vaunted "Totalitarian State" from stem to stern, von Papen flayed its muzzling of the Press, its meddling with religion, its encouragement of fanaticism and the drift toward radicalism of those Nazis who keep shouting for a Second Revolution. "Did we experience an anti-Marxist revolution," he barked, "only to carry out the program of Marxism...
Suddenly amid a loud crunching of steel on stone, the Dresden quivered from stem to stern. Down in the dining saloon waiters plunged head first into their platters. Decks tilted crazily while frightened Germans ran screaming from rail to rail. In a few minutes the Dresden's first S. O. S. was picked up by the coastal steamers King Harald and Crown Princess Martha, and the French navy despatch boat Ardent. The giant British battleship Rodney, visiting Stavanger, also heard the call but was told that no further assistance was necessary...
...surrounding of brothels, insane asylums, and disease when Bardamn arrives on Broadway, New York, disappointment is sure to be profound. Broadway is promptly described as "a running sore." The tip-off is complete when, after one or two deprecative observations on what Americans are proud to call "The Main Stem," Bardamn pops into a public toilet. Now there is a subject for you! The author gives it as many pages as Broadway itself...
These Daughters of the Revolution, in their living and being, mark one of the many paradoxes which stem from indiscriminate use of that word of words, Patriotism. Their alienation from the spirit and even many of the principles of the Founding Fathers is without parallel in the history of revolutions. A hundred years after England's Revolution in 1689, which was an affair of the same type, although more decorous than ours of '76, there existed in London a Society of the Revolution, sons of Whig stalwarts. It was the program of this society, however, to bring the French Revolution...
...amendments. This step taken, the House cast regard for the Administration to the winds and proceeded to make the bill over to suit itself-a thing it did not dare to do two months ago. Neither black-browed Majority Leader Byrns nor white-crested Speaker Rainey could stem the tide. The House did not accept the Senate bill but it thoroughly upset the Administration program by voting $91,700,000 extra for veterans' pensions and $130.000.000 extra for Federal pay. Representatives grew so rambunctious that they were ready to take on the Senate as well as the President. Among...