Word: thinke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From America's point of view we are insane to think that the time to oppose the Germans-if we ever are going to-is when they land armed forces in this hemisphere. If things go on as they have been for the last three years, the Germans will never have to land a man. Even Napoleon had to admit, in the end, that ideas are all-powerful, and the ideas of Nazidom are penetrating throughout South America. They have the prestige of success, and the democracies offer -well, what do they offer...
...position of leadership in the world in the past has always entailed the premature burial of numbers of the nation's young men, and nobody deplores this trend more strongly than I do. The only question is this: are there other things which are worse? I think there...
Although the Prime Minister was not as clear and definitely not as blunt in his Danzig warning as Nazi officials usually are, he in effect served notice that Britain did not think the Germans could win their lightning-war. And the British Government fitted actions to its words...
With its factories and offices only a two-hour bomber hop from Nazi air bases, British industry has plenty to think about. One thing it is thinking about is how to induce aging members of boards of directors to get physically fit to replace younger men called to the colors...
...delicate, effeminate, useless" romantic who had a daughter by an Indian woman, became a judge ("with one lawbook and two six-shooters," said oldtimers), married a romantic Oregon girl-poet named Minnie Myrtle whom he divorced because "Lord Byron separated from his wife, and some of my friends think I am a second Lord Byron." From San Francisco editors Poet Miller got rejection slips until his famous junket to England. Armed with a laurel wreath for Byron's grave, the manuscript of Songs of the Sierras, a pair of cowhide boots and a sombrero, he was taken...