Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is one red-hot poker which can put some real fire and spirit into the whole business. This is the selection of a high-stepping, tastefully exposed drum majorette to head up the Harvard marchers. "I reckon it's mighty strange how a pretty leg can kick you between the eyes," a high political official from Louisiana once remarked...
...Lieutenant, and after him a Captain, a Major and a Colonel all came up to see what the fuss was about. Sam was adamant. " 'E knocked it down. Reckon 'e picks it oop or it stays where it is-at me feet...
...parsons who had spent the summer exchange-preaching in Manhattan hastened to do their British bit. Said Rev. Dr. Donald Davidson, Bournemouth Presbyterian: "This dictator will find that he has not only France and England to reckon with but our Lord as well. God made the world and has every right to control it. If He did not take action in what we have seen at the present time, we would think He was indifferent." Dr. Frederick William Norwood, onetime pastor of London's City Temple, reproached the U. S.: "You are a little too big to cover yourself...
...historic neutrals might thus win a victory by default. If so, they would have to reckon with the possibility of the victory being hollow-for, as 1917 proved, no nation can be neutral if its Administration chooses to take sides, or if its people take sides. In the present pre-war world there are few conflicts in which the U. S. people are neutral at heart. Their special neutrality is a basic disinclination to commit mass murder and be its victim. But there can be no guarantee of neutrality in any words, whether of mandatory legislation or of traditional international...
...must reckon its apportionments of aid by jobs instead of by dollars among the States...