Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government planned to go to Barcelona as early as last November but decided temporarily on Valencia. . . . Barcelona now in its turn has the significance of showing the clear fidelity of the Government toward Catalonia...
...Soviet press that nearly all the registered religious groups have been smart enough not to attempt to nominate a priest or bishop but are working to advance the interests of persons, some even Communists, who for one reason or another are known to have a lenient attitude toward the Church. While none of Stalin's policies is ever criticized by Pravda or Izvestia, their unavoidable coverage of basic news had made it clear last week that the recent Communist Party "purge," in which 60% of all local Communist officials in Russia were either discharged or shifted to new posts...
With a whinnying of trumpets and a rolling rataplan of drums, the curtains at Manhattan's Shubert Theatre parted this week to disclose two apparently naked gods reclining on a cloud, their bare bottoms perked toward the heavens, their amorous gaze fixed on the somewhat startled audience. The bare bottoms were moulded of impersonal papier-mache, but the silver-bearded Jovian head on the left was unmistakably that of Alfred Lunt. Theatre Guild subscribers, present for the Manhattan opening of Amphitryon 38, settled back expectantly in their seats. They realized that Jupiter Lunt's eyes were not feasting...
...preaching continued as ever in support of Him who helpeth them to right that suffer wrong." Once the centre of violent Anglican controversy, Father Noel today is an accepted church institution, leader of a small but articulate left-wing group called "The Church Militant" and, in politics, tending toward Trotskyite communism. To non-religious communists, Father Noel's views are puzzling. Once a Russian addressed a meeting of Noelites, thought he was speaking their theological language, was aghast to find that they disagreed violently with everything he said, particularly when he mentioned "Christian myths." Publication of Father Noel...
Lady Maria has already had a bit of a Paris fling with one Anthony Horton (Melvyn Douglas). With some help from coincidence, Sir Frederick meets Anthony, finds they are Wartime buddies, and invites him over to the manse. Lady Maria is still disposed toward fidelity when Sir Frederick decides to go to Geneva alone instead of second-honeymooning with her to Vienna. Slighted, she grants Anthony's plea for a meeting at their Paris rendezvous. Here Sir Frederick, having put two and two together, arrives in time to win her back by knowingly accepting her suggestion that someone else...