Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show that he meant every word about the 40-hour week M. Daladier sent Senegalese troops to work as longshoremen on the docks at Marseille. Glistening with sweat, the Senegalese-sharpshooters all-carried backbreaking loads of cabbages, asparagus, oranges, lemons, which for the past month Marseille longshoremen, having worked their 40 hours, have refused to move at night or on Sundays...
Nonsectarian, incorporated in 1935, the Federation construes the word "churches" broadly, to mean a group of people with a common aim. The Federation's aim, shared by 20,000 people in the U. S., is to apply the principles of the Sermon on the Mount "scientifically" to modern life. The Federation considers the lilies of the field, how they grow, and it accepts Christ's words: Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works. To grow like the lily or to shine like the light is to use the "creative essence...
...Kanze, where the Panchen Lama remained last week, sitting odorously in his cerements. The Chinese troops wished to accompany the body to Lhasa; the Tibetans wanted no foreign soldiers; neither side gave in. Of authentic infant candidates to reincarnate and succeed either the Dalai or Panchen Lamas, no word had reached the outside world last week...
...Three years ago, when he witnessed the first firewalk performed in England (TIME, Sept. 30, 1935); newshawks asked him, as a well-known student of psychic phenomena, what he thought of the feat. Scholar Joad, taking a leaf from the book of George Bernard Shaw, who charges $1 a word for answering questions, said he could make no observations unless he was paid five guineas...
When George Bernard Shaw received a letter from a lady asking him to explain Socialism, he wrote a 200,000-word reply entitled The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism. Who it was who asked Dorothy Thompson to write Dorothy Thompson's Political Guide, published this week, the author does not reveal. Miss Thompson, who calls her book "the intelligent Woman's Guide to Isms," approaches the fulminating Fabian in garrulousness and dogmatism, but falls far behind in endurance-her book is only twice as long as Shaw's table of contents...