Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven months ago, when the Prime Minister needed to win Britain's last General Election, he turned the trick by having Anthony Eden appear dazzlingly in Britain's public eye as the Siegfried of Diplomacy, the handsome young man who was going to save Ethiopia from Italy with that flaming sword, the League of Nations. Having won the election Mr. Baldwin, who had created for "Tony" Eden the hitherto unheard of office of "Minister for League of Nations Affairs," sat back contentedly to let Ethiopia and Italy be dealt with in practical fashion by Sir Samuel Hoare, then...
Dictators not only make history but hurry it: they must become a living legend or their power will vanish. Hitler has turned the trick as far as Germany is concerned. Without a Jena or an Austerlitz, without even an Aduwa, he has become to Nazi Germany what Napoleon was to France, what Mussolini is to Italy. Of all the world's verbal and printed criticism of Hitler and his works, little percolates beyond the Rhine. Certainly neither the Realmleader nor any other inhabitant of Germany is likely to see either of the biographies U. S. readers were popping their...
...FLOWERS-Judith Kelly- Harper ($2). In this provocative first novel, Author Kelly presents with earnestness and frequently with hysteria the dilemma of a beautiful young Bostonian who enjoys her wealth but deplores its implications. Author Kelly has an irritating trick of bearing down on her favorite adjectives: The heroine is "sleek," "sly," "vivid" and "expensive...
...with many college aggregations this year, the chief Princeton uncertainty is in the box. Shorty Morris, who gave the Crimson among others considerable difficulty last year, has developed a trick knee, throwing the burden of the mound work upon a second veteran Dick Bell...
...Mellon Securities Co. and the other Jones & Laughlin bankers scrupulously pointed out in their prospectus, flood damage amounted to perhaps $1,000,000. But weather played another trick on J. & L. this year. At a tremendous saving over rail-carried fuel, the company barges coal by rivers to Pittsburgh and Aliquippa, site of its other big plant 19 miles away. There was more ice in Pittsburgh's rivers last winter than at any time since 1918. For 33 days no water-borne coal was delivered to the Aliquippa works. Costs were increased so much that the company estimated that...