Word: ringing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joining the Allies. This story was cut by British censors in its transmission to the U. S. Not tampered with at all was a widely publicized (and not particularly Cockburn) version of the attempted Hitler assassination, which ended with the conclusion that the assassins were "near-Göring bomb layers"-i.e., accomplices of Field Marshal Hermann Goring, successor to the Führer...
True extent of the suppression of the German people, of their obsession with being downtrodden, remains invisible until they are given even the slightest jot of authority. Meekest lambs in submission become vindictive tomcats in office. Last week Hermann Göring took official and stern notice of this phenomenon, even more apparent since war work has added many a new name to the official rolls, in a proclamation on bureaucracy...
Thanksgiving week saw three comedies open on Broadway, all of them bad. Aries Is Rising (by Caroline North & Earl Blackwell) featured a lady astrologer, suggested that the producers themselves were guided by astrology in putting it on. Ring Two (by Gladys Hurlbut), George Abbott's third production of the season, was penny amusing and pound silly. I Know What I Like (by Sculptor Justin Sturm) displayed a huge statue by Columnist Westbrook Pegler which stole the show. It may also have inspired it. "If Peg can do sculpture," Sculptor Sturm perhaps told himself, "I can write a play...
...week's end Aries Is Rising and Ring Two were dead & buried, I Know What I Like was in a coma...
...Amid falling snow at midnight, out of a carriage bundled a mass of shawls and woolen scarfs one winter evening to ring the doorbell at the home of a Virginia Congressman. Inside the house a manservant began unwinding the bundle. Out of it came the Secretary of State, General Lewis Cass, born in 1782, seventy-nine years old, whimpering: 'Mr. Pryor, I have been hearing about secession for a long time-and I would not listen. But now I am frightened, sir, frightened!'"A month before Lincoln's inauguration the Confederacy was already under arms. And young...