Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Valombrosa), reached an ecstatic crescendo of popularity and envy when he beat Mme Elsa Schiaparelli and other dressmakers to the job of making Wallis Simpson's trousseau. M. Mainbocher's corset fillip, no matter what else could be said for it. was another affirmation that the world still looked to Paris for a way to live, even as it was looking elsewhere...
...days of the War-after the Passchendaele offensive, the five-month stalemate on the Western Front that cost the British 300,000 casualties. Back in Lloyd George's Cabinet as Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, Secretary of State for Colonies, he attended the still more panicky, still more secret sessions that followed the Russian Revolution, when Russia's leaving the Allies released about 50 more German divisions for the Western Front. Undismayed, undisturbed, a superb orator when aroused, his mind crammed with sonorous phrases (many of them taken from his own works...
...more, await the dread signal. There is only one man who can give it. There he sits, torn by passion and foreboding, by appetites and fears, with his finger moving toward a button which-if he presses it-will explode what is left of civilization. . . . But the choice is still open. There is no truth in the plea that Hitler has gone too far to start over. By a single impulse of will power he could regain solid foundations of health and sanity. ... If there is friendly action we will match it on our side. If there is renewed aggression...
Whether his spirit would put Winston Churchill in the Cabinet was dwarfed by bigger questions last week: certainly Britain's ruling class still considers him brilliant, erratic, unsafe; certainly Prime Minister Chamberlain would regard his entry as a major calamity. But in or out, Cabinet Minister or M. P. for Epping, Winston Churchill served last week as a symbol of British democracy, as an oppositionist of the kind that totalitarian governments cannot endure...
While observers were still wondering whether the first-born steppe-child of the Berlin-Moscow marriage would be a Budapest-Bucharest axis, an internal axis was born-the Serbs and Croats finally got around to sporazum in Yugoslavia...