Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...definite greatness, and the speech of Adolf Hitler to the German Reichstag last week was in that class. It has always been Herr Hitler's technique, ever since his Nazi Party set out to thrash every other German party, to employ both the heavy Teuton bludgeon and the sweet Teuton sugar-cookie. By being intermittently sweet to the people he intermittently slugged, the Realmleader has made himself what he is today. Last week he asked Germans to vote overwhelmingly once more, on March 29, that they are satisfied...
...Sweet Aloes (by Joyce Carey; Lee Ephraim, producer) is a good commercial mixture of pseudo-science and sob-stuff calculated to provide a lush, sentimental background suitable to the fragile beauty of British Actress Evelyn Laye, unseen on Broadway since her impersonation of another lady of sorrows in Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet. However, the play scarcely deserves the full ire of Walter Winchell, the New York Mirror's columnist-critic, who commented: "Sweet Aloesy...
...trouble, she usually has, the choice of being sent either to Paris or New York. Belinda goes to New York. There she meets and is married to one of those rich, handsome but not altogether idle lawyers (this one is John Litel) who are so handy to dramas like Sweet Aloes. But Belinda is still miserable. She longs for her baby. She tortures herself with sweet memories of the Bay of Naples and bitter forebodings about her child's wellbeing. At this point an old family friend, a practical psychologist, learns that Belinda's former lover...
...funds for the Communist Party (valuables thus obtained being disposed of in part through Fence Litvinoff); and later as Dictator occasioning the deaths of thousands of Russians by his drastically obeyed order to "liquidate the kulak as a class." Let not Reader Ober rob the Dictator of terroristic laurels sweet to an Old Bolshevik whose proudest boasts are always about the number of years he spent in jail for crimes committed in Tsar Nicholas' reign.-ED. Sovereigns to Left Sirs: I note in your issue of Feb. 3, under the article "Make a Big V!" the statement: "In successive...
...fraternal buttons and colored caps, the members of the Co-operative Clubs of Kansas City gave President Frederick Arnold Middlebush of University of Missouri a rousing build-up as guest speaker by singing Sweet Adeline. Guest Speaker Middlebush fidgeted, rose, exploded: "That song arouses no sentiment in me. When I was elected to the presidency of the University of Missouri a few months ago I was forced to give up my quiet home on the outskirts of Columbia and move down on the campus. Every Saturday night since then I have heard the last passing Sweet Adeline never earlier than...