Word: whole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...destiny, it is each of us who is concerned-you said presently-it is the survival of our civilisation that is at stake, and this night when the terrible news of such a cataclysm reaches us will be forever la noche triste. And our whole household was in tears. Next day, Rio de Janeiro, almost a desert, silent, immersed in melancholy, looked like a cemetery. And the Press unanimously expressed this bitter sorrow of our Christian people. Now, look here, Dad, what this American paper, the very paper we like so much, dared to say against us Brazilians." And presently...
...possible to indicate many contrasts and shades of difference among different nations, but to strike the balance of the whole is not given to human insight. The ultimate truth with respect to the character, the conscience, and the guilt of a people remains forever a secret; if only for the reason that its defects have another side, where they reappear as peculiarities or even as virtues. We must leave those who find a pleasure in passing sweeping censures on whole nations to do so as they like. The peoples of Europe can maltreat, but happily not judge, one another...
...diplomatically crude work, since the negotiations were still supposed to be in the confidential stage. But in Moscow the Finnish Delegation, headed by former Premier Dr. Juho K. Paasikivi and Labor Leader V. A. Tanner, patiently kept the negotiations going and even dined with Dictator Stalin while the whole Scandinavian press began to shriek alarm and mobilized Finland grimly strengthened her defenses. (The overtaxed Finnish National Defense Organization had an inventive brainwave, announced that "by an ingenious device" Finnish dairy separators were being converted quickly into anti-gas purifiers...
This very quality of indecision was just the reason why Nobuyuki Abe was chosen: he would be pliable. But those who chose him did not realize that under him the whole Government would degenerate into machinery for vacillation. Since U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew gave Japan a piece of the U. S. mind on Oct. 19, the Japanese have wavered worse than before...
...choice of women. Instead of making up to the rather plain, high-cheek-boned Grand Duchess Olga, he took a fancy to the prettier and more vivacious Grand Duchess Tatiana, the Tsar's second oldest daughter. Since this was not on the schedule, the matchmakers called the whole affair off, and His Imperial Majesty at length showed his distaste not only for Carol but for the entire Rumanian royal family by coining one of his very rare epigrams: "Rumania, bah! It is neither a State nor a nation, but a profession...