Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commit suicide if the bluff failed was said to have been given him. Next tiff between the two occurred when good Protestant Fritsch hotly defended Pastor Martin Niembller, who was being hounded by the Nazis.* In 1938 it was Fritsch who carried straight to Hitler himself the class-conscious Army's protest against Minister of War Marshal Werner von Blomberg's marriageto his stenographer. In the purge that followed both Blomberg and Fritsch lost their jobs, but after the Army's mechanical breakdown during the invasion of Austria, Fritsch was reinstated to the extent that...
...last week began, Canada had no enthusiasm for the war she was in. She was miserably conscious of her weakness. Her war machinery creaked. No one liked being committed to Britain's foreign policy without having a voice...
...Sometimes they were a social-conscious emetic like Philip Evergood's painting of a walkathon in which it was hard to tell the epicene men from the epicene women staggering in various stages of rawly colored collapse...
...much healthier than it was twenty-five years ago. In spite of the crystallized sentiment against the Nazis, it is intent upon viewing all events through polarized glasses. It listens to newscasts with a silent admonition to discriminate in its belief. It reads of atrocities with a conscious effort not to get excited. It maintains a forced detachment from the affair...
...standard favorites: few of Critic Craven's prints were misprints. Big-shot artists such as Benton, Curry, Sloan and Wood were allotted five or six pages apiece, others from one to three. There were prints to suit everybody. People who itch and fidget when confronted with the self-conscious strainings of Thomas Benton's I Got a Girl on Sourwood Mountain could turn a page to his Lonesome Road. For people who consider John Steuart Curry's darkly violent lithograph Line Storm "theatrical," Critic Craven supplied a pasture pastoral like Curry's bully Ajax. Others...