Word: invention
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total risk, the abandonment of all the gentle things of life. Men support, needless to say, the heaviest and most terrible part of the sacrifice. Nevertheless, I cannot keep myself from pitying the women who want to be brave, but who do not know how, and who must invent, each one for herself, a personal heroism...
...their hands were a score of new tools they had helped invent and perfect for just this purpose and moment. For at Munich-time (September 1938) Franklin Roosevelt told his administrators that never again must the U. S. be caught short, that plans must be drawn up to meet every predictable impact on the U. S. of a war abroad-measures to cushion the shock to the money-markets, to bring home U. S. nationals, to lay a firm foundation for the uncertainties of the future. Even proclamations were ready for the President's bold pen-stroke...
...columns to his pet political peeves and peevish political pets. He was shrilly pro-Nazi, anti-French, abominated U. S.-made planes, roundly clapperclawed the British Air Ministry for buying them. A colorful penman with spectacular contempt for fact ("What's the good of that when you can invent your facts as you go along?"), führious Editor Grey perennially brewed bumpy weather in European air politics...
...working U. S. farmers of the West than with the bizarre, demoralized crackers of Erskine Caldwell's books. The Pate's Siding folk show about the usual run of rural superstitions: those who prepare for the end of the world during an eclipse are the same who invent the community's ghosts and picturesque fables. Their births, deaths, weddings, coon hunts, corn-huskings, box suppers, hog killings, squabbles, worries, jokes and tragedies are memorable because Author Harris writes about them sensitively and honestly rather than because they are dramatic in themselves...
...Rains), she turns out to be a jewel with a heart of gold. Besides lavishly fulfilling her exacting duties, Hannah sells the contents of the family basement at fabulous prices, facilitates a budding romance between young Sally Ward (Bonita Granville) and Peter Trimble (Jackie Cooper), stimulates Paul Ward to invent not one but two different types of automatic icebox, and cures Mrs. Ward of the chronic droops. By all this audiences are prepared to believe in the denouement of the story and the omnipotence of the Golden Rule...