Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While husbands jeered, hairdressers purred and hat-designers hovered, most U. S. women whorled when whorls were definitely the thing, went closely bobbed with shaven necks when that was decreed, had their ears hidden one year, naked the next...
...before the week was over two events, one in Europe, the other in Can ada, one a thing of spirit, the other of flesh and blood, had served to unify Cana dian opinion. One brought into the fold Canada's dissident minority, the 2,500,000 French Catholics of the Province of Que bec. The news which fired them was the entrance of pagan Russia into Catholic Poland, the leaguing together of Satan's archangels, J. Stalin with A. Hitler...
...with which Mexico is reluctant to trade. Then there was trouble about the nine refugee ships in her harbors. Their radio rooms had to be sealed, their crews watched. Up to its ears, the Mexican Foreign Office, which usually gives a diplomatic reception on Independence Day, called the whole thing off this week...
...hrer, if you want to use the Army to support a bluff by military pressure, you can depend on us. For more serious business, we are not yet ready." A few days later he had taken over command of the Austrian Army. In September 1938, he said the same thing in almost the same words-and marched into the Sudetenland at the head of the German troops. He occupied Bohemia and Moravia last spring, but still the Army was not ready. Last month, as motorized divisions began concentrating in Slovakia, in Silesia and East Prussia, Walther von Brauchitsch said good...
...uses a tennis court to demonstrate how he can balance a pencil on his bare toes. But in Jack's next match, he faced no eccentric pushover. He ran up against a 19-year-old, six-foot-one Golden Boy from California, unseeded and unsung, but the nearest thing to full Titan stature U. S. tennis has seen this season. Sidney Welby Van Horn, who prefers Welby because he thinks Sidney sounds like Percy, showed an overhead game like Budge's, a forehand like Vines's, a backhand like nobody's and a service like sixty...