Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazi devotion rendered him by division after division of his followers. Arriving nearly 200,000 strong each day, they drilled before the Realmleader on Zeppelin Meadows, a 48-acre field pack-jammed at every demonstration. As a special honor about 10% of each horde were privileged to goose-step past Realmleader Hitler in the public square, and, to make room for the marching columns, Nuremberg removed one of her most famed medieval monuments, the Fountain of Neptune, sacred to every tourist. "After the Party Congress is over," anxious hotel men declared, "the Fountain of Neptune will be put back where...
When a Hollywood producer spends a fortune making something which he considers a masterpiece, his next step is to spend another fortune advertising his achievement...
...economists will dispute Author Corey's charts, tables, sources, as well as conclusions, but they cannot say he has failed to back up his generalizations with evidence. He writes with temperate civility, trying to make his case intellectually rather than emotionally, and only on rare occasions does he step out of his role of scholarly logician to hurl the professional thunderbolts of Communist rhetoric...
...Baron Corvo." Throughout his life he remained a Catholic zealot, thought of himself as the one true Catholic, believed the Church and its modern priesthood were conspiring against him. He found "the Faith comfortable and the Faithful intolerable." Biographer Symons calls his failure to make the priesthood the first step on the road to paranoia...
...article in Wide World Magazine by "Baron Corvo" telling how he was once buried alive resulted in a vitriolic newspaper attack in which his history and pretensions were reviewed. This was the second step in his persecution complex. But Stories Toto Told Me (first published in The Yellow Book), In His Own Image, Hadrian the Seventh, Don Tarquinio, Chronicles of the House of Borgia and his translation (from the French translation) of Omar Khayyam won him friends and literary recognition, although he made only about...