Word: welters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aghast at what was happening, henchmen of ex-Premier Azana and other leaders who made Spain a Republic, began to do their bit by bursting into polling places and smashing voting urns amid a welter of trampled ballots. Even the anti-Socialist but definitely Republican party of Premier Don Diego Martinez Barrios grew nervous as it began to seem that the women's vote might give victory to extreme Right parties loyal to "His Most Catholic Majesty." As tension grew the Mayor of Badajos was stabbed to death by poll pug-uglies, but not until he had fired...
...author utilizes all the long-accepted conventions of the mystery story, but he does so with such ingenuity and creates such a welter of involved circumstances that we are almost entirely unaware of his technical trickery. After allowing us to suspect various people, the guilt is finally fastened on the person who is ostensibly least concerned with the characters in the book...
...Mercier is one of the challengers, and the challengees are all those who feel confident that the new and revolutionary philosophies of the last few hundred years are putting us on the right track, however confusedly. The book is a set of definitions and explanations: most useful in the welter of shibboleths and manifestoes that have been piling up under the heading of humanism in the last few years...
Last week Assemblyman Higgins and two colleagues opened hearings in a packed Senate parlor. They compared scholarship grants before and during President Frank's tenure. Students and townspeople offered a welter of rumors and opinions, few facts...
...than the Goebbels-Hitler method of explaining away all Germany's defeats and trials in terms of the Jew. True Germans were not defeated in the War, so runs the Nazi tale for grown-up children. They were betrayed by Jewish pacifists. Marx was a Jew! In the welter of German revolution the Jews fomented a German Republic essentially