Word: takings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fleet Italian swallow) and "Toad" (Boston or Bust). Does the Miscellany editor have a pending file that will remind him to find out whether Teddy actually gets home again in April 1941? (Such a smart toad might reason that he is better off in California-his master would just take him to some outlandish place again.) Please. R. T. GRIFFITH Pittsburgh...
...Neutrality. In one set he conformed to international usage, in the other to Congressional statute. Ten days after they were drafted, two days after Great Britain declared war, Franklin Roosevelt released the first. It forbade aliens on U. S. soil as well as U. S. citizens to take armed service with a belligerent. Others of its 17 rules forbade belligerent ships-of-war to use U. S. harbors for anything more than hurried (24 hour) ports of call, to roam with intent to fight in U. S. waters, to chase one another in & out of American ports, to take...
...Take virtually absolute control of dealings in international exchange, and of domestic banking (a power originally granted to prevent "trading with the enemy...
They That Take the Sword not only has a good chance of success because of new interest in 20th-Century Russian history, but also stands out as a good novel in its own right. It tells its bloody epic through plausible human (and inhuman) characters. Its hero, Sergei Kuskov, is human in his contradictions. He coolly plans the assassination of Tsarist generals and police, but is tormented by puritanical scruples in his love affairs. A deadly foe of Tsarism, he nevertheless wins a medal for his zeal as a railroad construction boss, becomes a patriot in the War, gets...
...this portrait, Sergei (like other characters in the book) has more of the Russian character as portrayed by Tolstoy and Dostoevski than of that played up by Soviet fiction. Soviet critics explain that Russians have changed, grown cheerful, hygienic, machine-minded, athletic, non-acquisitive. They That Take the Sword suggests that the Russian character survives more stubbornly than any Soviet official confesses...