Word: standings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political front Sweden showed signs of toughening her stand against both Germany and Russia. At week's end Foreign Minister Sandier, whose head has been demanded by both countries because of his "pro-British policies," still carried his portfolio. All but 50 members walked out of the Chamber of Deputies when a Communist got up to speak. Named active commander in chief of all Sweden's armed forces was 62-year-old Lieut. General Olof Gerhard Thörnell, an expert on Europe's armies, who announced: "The defense of . . . the Fatherland puts everything else...
Home Secretary Sir John Anderson, a tight-lipped disciplinarian with a hard but twinkling eye, perfectly appreciates that the moderate whoopee requirements of Tommy Atkins on leave are all but irrepressible. Last week Sir John continued to maintain a firm laissez-faire stand toward London night life despite a great twittering of complaint from the shires that today night club "harpies and hussies" are again preying on the morals and emptying the purses of apple-cheeked subalterns...
...said Diogenes. "Don't stand there between...
...Producer Pasternak nor anybody else could foresee what Samuel S. Hinds (who was the father who played with fireworks in You Can't Take It With You) would do to Destry Rides Again. As a top-hatted, bespectacled, tobacco-chawing old mayor of Bottle Neck, and a crooked stand-in of its bad men, he durn near runs away with the show...
...autobiographies, 984 titles in the field of belles-lettres which includes poetry, drama and criticism, 1,361 titles which come under the general head of politics, history, economics and social sciences. In this enormous mass of books -good, bad, ponderous, specialized, dull, exciting, original, confused, confusing-a jew stand head & shoulders above rivals in their respective fields. Some emerge from the year's crop by their wide popular appeal, a few because of their unquestionable literary or human significance. Outstanding titles...