Word: watchfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Higher and Higher!" It was no fun for A. Hitler to watch the "Berchtesgaden technique" of bluff & bludgeon being successfully used on Estonia last week by Russia. Germans have always hoped to dominate the Baltic. As long as 20 years ago German General Staff officers had perfected a fine set of plans for invading Russia with a thrust through Estonia to seize Leningrad. The Führer may or may not have realized before what his chumming up with the Bolsheviks might cost him in the Baltic sphere, as well as in the Balkans, but he saw every reason...
...Watch and wait; Junior may drink by himself. (This...
...first has been getting more publicity than any other singer in the business. Woody is certainly on his way up, and Jimmy has been cracking records all over the East, his latest being at Atlantic City . . . Duke Ellington has a clever military takeoff in "The Sergeant Was Shy" . . . Watch out for some of these new Lionel Hampden records: they're going to have a sax section of Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Ben Webster, and Chu Berry. Three of them are considered the greatest in the world on their instruments, and Ben Webster isn't any slouch . . . Alee Templeton...
...students to wise and necessary economics. But confusion is rife among them as to exactly how they are affected by supposed economics and the educational policies underlying them. Perhaps the relations between the Administration and the Faculty are not yet of immediate concern to students, and they can watch that battlefield with remote interest. But questions exist as part of their daily classroom experience which are troublesome and unanswered...
...House than about his later career as assistant editor of Punch (1906-14), officer in World War I, successful playwright and novelist. "When I read the biography of a well-known man," he confesses, "I find that it is the first half of it which holds my attention. I watch with fascinated surprise the baby, finger in mouth, grow into the politician, tongue in cheek; but I find nothing either fascinating or surprising in the discovery that the cynicism of the politician has matured into the pomposity of the Cabinet Minister. It was inevitable...