Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days, turned at Danzig to reassure Joseph Stalin and pave the way for the military partition of Poland by friendly Nazis and Reds (see p. 29). "I am happy now ... to refute . . . British statesmen who continually maintain that Germany intends to dominate Europe to the Ural Mountains. . . . Now, gentlemen of the British Empire, Germany's aims are very limited. We have discussed the matter with Russia . . . and if you are of the opinion that we might come to a conflict on the subject-we will not. . . . It will calm you to learn that Germany does...
Next day President Arosemena spoke. By inference he took many a slap at the uninvited guest as he addressed the invited ones: "Gentlemen . . . you come here neither to destroy nor to enslave nor to dismember nations, nor to prepare the predominion of one people upon the tragic ruins of a neighbor, nor to subscribe to public pacts to cover the maliciousness of secret treaties, nor to proscribe races, nor to persecute religions." So roundly did he condemn totalitarianism that he had to explain that Latin American dictatorships "have never been imperialist or totalitarian." Most of them, he said, were merely...
...patronizing of sophomores, the nebulous advice of juniors, and the aloof disconcern of seniors seldom bring much order out of the chaos. The college might almost as well hire a set of carollers to wander about the Yard singing a medley of "Hold Tight" and "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen...
...continued insistence of official Berlin that the torpedo must have been British, fired to arouse U. S. indignation. Most charitable theory entertained by neutrals about "Atrocity No. 1" of World War II was that, while Germany's U-boats may have had orders to prey like gentlemen, the Athenia's destroyer was a Nazi hothead who could not control his trigger finger. Suspicion that a sharp order to other U-boat captains may have been issued by Berlin was aroused by the contrasting conduct of a captain who, last week, sank the British sugar freighter Olivegrove, 200 miles...
...censors, 100 middle-aged gentlemen with blue pencils, sit in a room in the basement. Copy goes down to them by pneumatic tube. Cable dispatches they read and then pass on by teletype to cable offices. For correspondents who prefer to do their work in their own offices (and for laymen sending private messages) another 100-odd censors are on duty at the telegraph and cable companies...