Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boldness that has been lacking in recent years. It has fallen dangerously behind the times and the objectives of Dr. Sun Yatsen. Let's hope it is not yet too late to catch up. Real friends of China can do a great deal in this respect, especially in view of the fact that Kuomintang is intrinsically more disposed toward cooperation with Western democracies, a point that has been overlooked somehow by China's critics in recent times...
Tennessee's Governor Prentice Cooper dutifully pronounced the lynching "regrettable," offered a $500 reward for conviction of the guilty. But no one seemed to know who they were-even though a few had tarried in the reformatory yard, prodding the other inmates to come out and view the body, "as an example...
...himself during the election campaign, unburdened himself to a Montreal newsman: "Dewey was a very weak nominee ... he ran behind practically every other Republican candidate who was elected. ... If Dewey had been elected at all he would have had to run as a nationalist. . . . The New York point of view is not the national point of view. . . . The west, which created the Republican Party, must regain control of it, and then it can come back to power. ... I do not think that a lot of people who were active in getting the nomination for him wanted him elected, any more...
Karski went back to Poland the way he had come, carrying 40 lbs. of Polish banknotes. He remained in Warsaw two weeks, then set out for Paris again. This time he was to carry the points of view of the different Polish parties to the Government-in-Exile. He was also to give the Government their agreements about the division of administrative posts in the underground Government. Each of the four parties gave Karski its confidential plans and programs to memorize, so he could give them to each party's representative in Paris. He swore he would not divulge...
...Robert Graves, brilliant, 49-year-old veteran of 60 volumes of fiction, poetry and biography, has given Poet Milton a drubbing-on the same scanty evidence. His new novel, Wife to Mr. Milton, is an icy, wife's-eye-view of the Puritan Revolution's dourest man and greatest poet, set against the backdrop of the English Civil War. It is based on Marie's "secret diary" (which exists only in Author Graves's imagination), plus Graves's solid knowledge of Milton's life & times...