Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol Hill, two deans of the Senate, Lewis of Illinois and Borah of Idaho, arose to support this view. They were joined by rowdy Bob Reynolds of North Carolina, who exclaimed: "We should wash behind our ears before telling other nations of the world to take a bath...
...Motto: Defense." Clearly Mr. Chamberlain had swapped the unpopular nag of appeasement for the glossy war-horse of rearmament, a wise move in view of the fact that 1939 is almost certainly a General Election year...
...absolutely essential that public opinion come more generally to recognize these facts. Toward that end, all such agitation as is represented by the Spanish petition is valuable; but in view of recent events, some of which had occurred when the petition was framed, a far more practical attitude would oppose the mandatory provisions of the neutrality act. This miscalled "Peace Act of 1937" can really promote peace only when it makes possible discrimination against an aggressor; so long as it continues to deny American support to the forces making for world order-and thus, by default, actually improves the position...
...those humanitarians who cry out at the use of horses in war and such gory pastimes as Spanish bullfights and bear-baiting, betake themselves to the Boston Skating Club some afternoon this week and they will view that which passeth all description as far as atrocious pastimes go. For on the ice of this handsome rink are perpetrated the most horrible crimes ever seen by bird, beast, or fish...
...post-War literary epoch, then Editor Eliot's last words to his readers may well stand as that epoch's classic obituary. At the beginning of the depression, he records, "The 'European mind,' which one had mistakenly thought might be renewed and fortified, disappeared from view: there were fewer writers in any country who seemed to have anything to say to the intellectual public of another. . . . Perhaps for a long way ahead, the continuity of culture may have to be maintained by a very small number of people indeed." His greatest regret: that the price...