Word: weakness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peace. Herr Hitler has rarely delivered a worse speech. It was weak, unconvincing, rambling, discursive, formless. Never had Hitler seemed less sure of himself. He worked up no climaxes. He asserted that in seizing Czecho-Slovakia he had performed a "service for peace" and announced that the next Nazi Congress at Nürnberg would be called the "Party Congress of Peace." His bitterest remarks were directed at Britain...
...soured his attitude towards life" and prevented him from coordinating his muscles. He contrasted the stumbling, shuffling manner in which Robert maneuvered his 495 Ib. with the "easy grace" of Jack Earle, who, he said, was normal. He added that Robert had difficulty in swallowing, that his voice was weak and mumbling, that he had no feeling in certain parts of his body...
Idaho's ursine Borah, still weak from flu, denounced the air bill as dictated by "bluff and jitterism." His new junior colleague, pretty David Worth Clark, 36, made a maiden speech telling the U. S. to mind its own business. Minnesota's heavy Lundeen talked darkly of Presidential secrets which would "stun" and "shock" the country if revealed. California's white-crowned Hiram Johnson, North Dakota...
...Express makes $1,000,000 a year, the Examiner $500.000. The San Francisco Examiner is another $1,000,000 paper. The Call-Bulletin and Oakland's Post-Enquirer earn far less, but stand to get a boost from the fair this year. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, once the weak sister of the Coast, has been pulling out of the red under Roosevelt Son-in-Law John Boettiger, will make enough in 1939 to offset 1938's losses. These papers will probably survive as a string long after Hearst is gone...
...place to get your permanent start in tennis is in college,' emphatically declared Fred Perry, suave British racquet star yesterday. "Get out and practice, know your fundamentals, and work on your weak shots. When you are practicing, forget about winning a match, and concentrate on your stroking...