Word: whim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There appear to be conflicting views of the merits of the contest. Chang's insistent effort to nullify the painting job must have had a deeper motive than mere whim or prejudice. One of our associates has suggested that his purpose was a benevolent one; that he realized the used of work relief--and wanted to spread...
...Outlook Gloomy." Thus a Viceroy, at the absolute discretion and whim of His Majesty's Government, can become overnight a totalitarian Dictator, gagging and blackjacking one-fifth of the human race at his pleasure. But what wing-collared, high-principled Director of the Bank of Scotland ever gagged or blackjacked anybody? To this every Communist and most Socialists would reply with Professor Laski that bank directors are precisely the people who by invisible but effective means have not only been gagging and binding but bleeding India's masses to the verge of destitution, Indian bankers in this respect...
Died. Oliver Herford, 71, writer, artist, Manhattan wit of the 1890's; after long illness; in Manhattan. Most famed Herford witticism concerned his wife, of whom he said: "Peggy has a whim of iron." Like Whistler, he wore a monocle, liked to squelch bores with such jibes as: "I don't recall your name, but your manners are familiar...
Truly as one person would have it, the radio and the movies and perhaps the blondes, have driven out debating. Until another passing whim shall again seize the undergraduate and debating shall again become the fad of the cream of Brown men, nothing can be done about it. All we can do is sit back on our haunches and howell at the top of lungs the days tha used...
...Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring crowds every waking moment with pomp and circumstance, changes from gorgeous to still more gorgeous uniforms half a dozen times a day, stuffs his fat but mighty-muscled frame with much raw meat, tosses off champagne with gusto and indulges his every whim, from keeping a fond lioness at home to forcing the League of German maidens to make pilgrimages to the shrine of his late first wife who was a Swedish Baroness...