Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Discussion groups, however, are the most consistently active part of the League's program. Under the direction of members of the Faculty, groups of from eight to twelve gather once a week to investigate the major problems, that face them. One of the most thorough probing conducted was into the workings of the Ghandi passive resistance method; another, a discussion of Clarence Streit's "Union...
...desire of all the American nations to preserve democracy in the western hemisphere. The truth is that democracy as we know it does not exist south of the Rio Grande. Latin-America is more akin to the "old world" than the United States both culturally and economically. We must face the fact that Latin-American countries must and will sell to anyone, even Herr Hitler. Above all, we must realize that we can aid all nations to defend themselves, but we can not protect 100,000 miles of South American coast line when we have not got a fleet large...
...number of sad, sickly-looking Johnny penguins. Now & then one of them would plop into the lake, never to emerge. Looking down into the clear water, the curator saw "on the cold blue bottom, with their flippers outstretched . . . hundreds, possibly thousands of dead Johnny penguins. . . . Most of them lay face up, their breasts reflecting gleams of white from the darker water...
After the usual number of confirmations and denials, Warners chose poker-faced Pat O'Brien to play Rockne. The selection was like a distinguished service cross to O'Brien, who, like most Irish-American males, is a violent Notre Dame fan in spite of the fact he teased their marching song at parties with a parody beginning: "Shame, shame on old Notre Dame. The Jews and the Polaks have stolen your game." Some plastic work to spread his nose and blondined hair and eyebrows change the O'Brien face into a reasonable facsimile of Norse Knute Rockne...
...Childe Harold. Young ladies were dreaming of giaours, Manfreds, Mazeppas, with wild eyes, black mustaches, long cloaks, wicked pasts. In Lausanne one day Trelawny read Shelley's Queen Mab. He rushed to Pisa to meet the satanic author, was astonished at Shelley's "flushed, feminine and artless face," soon felt as romantic about Shelley as he had about De Ruyter...