Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rodman Gilder '40 escaped injury today when a wing of the glider he was piloting struck a tree near the take-off on North Sugarloaf to send the machine careening down the hill...
When Congressman Jacob Thorkelson, 63, a doctor from Butte, Mont., took his seat in the House last January, he was hailed heartily. Reason : he took the place of unpopular, left-wing Jerry J. O'Connell...
...attend meetings which Jews do well to avoid. At the meetings, held by groups with names like "Christian Front" and "Christian Mobilizers," the streets of upper Manhattan and The Bronx resound with cries of "Buy Christian," "Down with the Jews," "Wait till Hitler comes over here." Only the left-wing press has paid much attention to these gatherings, although in recent months they have resulted in more than 250 arrests and some 85 actual and suspended sentences. (Example last week: Patrick Kiernan, 38, reliefer; three months in the workhouse for an anti-Semitic speech-"disorderly conduct" on a Bronx street...
...divergence between these two descriptions of business was more than half political. Under Secretary Hanes spoke for the Pollyanna wing of the Administration, which is not at all anxious to throw any stumbling blocks in the way of recovery that the Government does not have to pay for. Secretary Hopkins and ghostwriters spoke for the New Deal wing, which has no real faith that Business ever will produce prosperity and wants to be on record against the day when the boom collapses and more appropriations will be asked from Congress...
...Stephen Spender, most lyrical of left-wing poets, the Soviet-German pact seemed to "make nonsense of most of the left-wing writing of the past ten years." He saw the war as "the most extraordinary confusion, in which each side is fighting to produce chaos in the other before it has lost control of itself. ... As I haven't been told to do anything, I can devote myself to writing, perhaps my posthumous works...