Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seeking for a word to describe the activities of the late Coster (Musica) you might call him a hypothecary...
Most embarrassed by these disclosures was British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who has said many times that he took Il Duce's word for it that Italian help to Generalissimo Franco would be reduced, not increased. Three months ago a token withdrawal of 10,000 Italian troops from Spain took place. On that showing Mr. Chamberlain implemented an Anglo-Italian treaty. Although Dictator Mussolini was expected to demand of the Prime Minister at Rome next week (see p. 21) that Britain grant belligerent rights to Rebel Spain, from London last week came hints that Mr. Chamberlain, for his part...
...Merchant of Yonkers (by Thornton Wilder; produced by Herman Shumlin) is Thornton Wilder on a lark. The play, like the word, is rather out-of-date: Wilder has rewritten an old Viennese farce with no thought of streamlining it. The scene of The Merchant of Yonkers is Manhattan in the '80s. but old as the European theatre is the plot of the sweated apprentices who sneak off for a holiday, of their miserly old master (Percy Waram) on the hunt for a wife, and of the obliging Mrs. Fixit (Jane Cowl) who fixes things to suit herself. The slapstick...
Comparing a Jew-baiting article written last month by Father Charles Edward Coughlin for his weekly Social Justice, with a Jew-baiting address given in 1935 by German Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels (see p. 20), the New York Post discovered that parts of them were almost word for word the same...
...World, official organ of the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago (presided over by George Cardinal Mundelein), appeared the following front-page message: A happy and blessed Christmas to all our readers and a special prayer and word of encouragement to the Hearst employes who are on strike...