Word: strangest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strangest newspapers in the world is edited in Lhasa, Tibet, by one Tharchin Baboo. The Tibetan News has a small circulation among an intellectual clientele of Tibetan lamas, some of whom pay for their subscriptions in yak butter. The paper contains cartoons, international news, and puzzles for the hours when the lamas' prayer wheels are idle. Recently readers of the News have been getting their yak butter's worth, for near-by-in China's Szechwan Province just to the east and Sinkiang Province just to the north-mysterious, important news was being made...
...though dissension in the War Department were not enough, Washington recently was treated to one of the strangest episodes in New Deal Fantasia. The President's undercover men (Janizaries Corcoran & Cohen) began to shoot at Louis Johnson who all along had been trustfully waiting for the President to make peace by giving him Harry Woodring's place...
...Strangest aspect of the world since it came under the spell of Adolf Hitler is its uncertainty: the whimsical nature of events as they unravel from the Führer's haunted mind. Even heads of governments nowconsult the writings of journalists like Pertinax, Augur, Tabouis, who are reputed to have secret sources of knowledge about things to come. But common men look for guidance where they have always found it: in the stars...
Significance. Strangest fact about Miss Ravenel's Conversion is that it has been forgotten for so long. Battle scenes like the storming of Port Hudson are superior to those of Stephen Crane; the humor, bewilderment and passion of Miss Lillie make Hawthorne's and Cooper's damsels seem moral abstractions. Although, in its 466 pages, the book sometimes seems labored, and antiquated asides slow down its fast story, De Forest's wit picks it up, springs out in the plain talk of soldiers, his comments on the appallingly dull conversations of people in love...
President of the Board of Trade Oliver Stanley and Sir John Simon, an appeaser from way back, swelled the chorus, but the strangest note was struck by Sir Francis Lindley, onetime Ambassador to Japan, longtime foe of Soviet Russia, stanch friend of and host to Mr. Chamberlain. Sir Francis told the Conservative Party's Foreign Affairs Committee that British prestige would rise if the projected pact with Russia fell through...