Word: trots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occur to him that it was in any way his responsibility to inform the Exchange or anybody else-even though both J. P. Morgan and his son Junius have Exchange seats. Asked Banker Lamont: "Would you expect me to say I will help you out, but you must trot down to the District Attorney's office and denounce your brother...
...trot out a renegade churchman-a propagandist stunt which is not peculiar to the dictator nations but has been used by U. S. bigots (with "ex-monks," "escaped nuns," etc.)-would benefit not only Stalin but the discredited Russian Godless. So last week Metropolitan Nikolas' renunciation of "religious lies" appeared in the atheist journal, Bezbozhnik. He declared that he had begun to feel that his church duties were burdensome, and finally discontinued them entirely. "For me," wrote the Metropolitan, "the face of the priesthood has been unmasked." Thereupon Nikolas proceeded to particularize, naming prelates by name and accusing them...
...enthusiasm, Conductor Hindemith tore a page of his score, lost his baton, ended by conducting with his fists. Critics approved his new work unanimously. Also present on a nearly all-Hindemith program was Chamber Music No. 1, a suite for small orchestra whose last movement, a macabre fox trot, is supposed to depict the hysteria of War-torn Europe. Polite Chicagoans missed the point but liked the fox trot, applauded with appreciative giggles...
...fast as pen can trot, young writers build...
...such a policy will require inexhaustible forbearance and finesse, more than can be expected of the military mind; but temporary success in large areas of China is not improbable. Chinese nationalism has only just begun to wipe out the old opportunist individualism, and the Japanese will be able to trot out a horde of antiquated politicians of the "Chinese traitor" class, who for a full rice bowl will act as a toothless front for Japanese control. This has succeeded, so far, in Manchuria...