Word: whethers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confusing was this mélange that White House Secretary Stephen Early afterwards undertook to clarify it. In doing so, he volunteered the most revealing statement yet made on the subject. The President, said Mr. Early, has not decided whether to expand Rearmament at all. This amounted to saying that U. S. citizens lately have been gazing at nothing but a huge trial balloon. Not even this, however, was the most astonishing thing in the Administration's Rearmament fuss...
Columnists, correspondents, Congressmen and such military critics as astute Major George Fielding Eliot (The Ramparts We Watch) wanted to know whom and where the U. S. expects to fight with an expanded Army. Just as big a question after the President's press conference last week was whether he was talking politic bosh with "pay-as-you-go," or whether he was about to haul down his trial balloon, restore Messrs. Craig and Leahy to command, and reduce Rearmament from big talk to a small practical matter for Army, Navy and budget...
...group, of which Joseph Prescott 4G, an assistant in English, is the chairman, is attempting to "make obscure plays get up and walk around," while making the study of the drama congenial and amusing. Several men who inquired whether the group's study would be a help in passing their PhD's were unceremoniously dismissed...
...with enough 'body' for a masculine audience." Theodore Wood, Jr. 2G, who has been a consistent leading man when parts are drawn from a hat on "production nights" was more explicit. "It's good rugged stuff--all sorts of words are used without a blush." Wood did not explain whether it was the play or the players that did not "blush...
...main purpose of the movement is to find out what the Law School body thinks about its eating facilities as they now exist, whether a list of eating places would be advisable, and if a co-operative is desirable...