Word: warring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...booming, trading, railroading Atlanta, the War Between the States was a cosmic incident but not the end of the world. Savannah and Decatur (doomed to be a mere suburb), Macon and Augusta might mourn the life that was gone; Atlanta had business to do: rebuilding, shipping to and from the whole southeastern U. S., as John Calhoun had foretold, growing to 22,000 by 1870, 89,872 by 1900. Georgians who were not Atlantans had a saying: "If the folks in Atlanta could suck as hard as they can blow, they would suck the ocean up to their city limits...
...Garner wage war at rummy, sat the Vice President and the "company," well-groomed Roy Miller (well-to-do sulfur man), R. W. Norton, ranch owner and Texas oilman, and cigar-crunching Newshawk Bascom Timmons, Washington correspondent for ten Southern papers, longtime friend of Mr. Garner...
...Goebbels has requested that money which would be used on such cards be contributed to Nazi Winter Relief. To enable housewives to spice the traditional German Christmas puddings, cakes and cookies, the State last week released ginger, aniseed, vanilla and cinnamon for sale for the first time since World War II broke. Still withheld from Hausfrauen at any price are pepper, caraway, paprika. Nazi authorities urged the making of "eggless and butterless cookies...
French adults celebrate not Christmas Day, which is for children, but Christmas Eve, which climaxes solemnly at midnight Mass, followed by a merry feast in the small hours. Last week, as a special dispensation, the State, which has forbidden midnight Masses since the war broke, authorized them for Christmas Eve. In Paris, priests were required to limit attendance in their churches to the capacity of available air-raid shelters nearby...
...Rummiest War." In the United King dom authorities made frantic efforts to keep evacuated children from returning to town for Christmas, and literary bigwigs wrote persuasively in the press. "This Christmas, coming as it does in the rummiest war the world has ever known, will be a test of our common sense," wrote Novelist J. B. Priestly. "We are fighting bewildered, angry, hysterical men, who at any moment may bark out orders to rain death and destruction on this country. . . . Therefore, let the children stay [in the country]. . . . It is better to spend one Christmas Eve longing for them than...