Word: kind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome, where any kind of diversion in the Baltic is a welcome respite from Russian pressure on the Balkans, the game was played for all it was worth. Students marched to cheer the Finnish Minister, yelled "Abbasso il Comunismo!" and signed up for service in Finland "if transportation could be found." In other words, one of Germany's allies was now fighting its other ally, just as one of Finland's friends (Germany) was fighting other friends (Great Britain and France) on the Western Front-a situation not too abnormal for 1939 world diplomacy...
...observation that "the atmosphere is rather like that of a family party where the younger girls are in tearing spirits and occasionally do the splits or snatch a cigar from uncle's mouth. Everyone is out to be as naughty as possible, but it is a very schoolboyish kind of naughtiness without much sign of the sinister or the vicious...
...last I have found him. At any rate he assures me that he really is one of that mysterious group, the Harvard Communists. But personally if they are all as kind-hearted as he, I can continue to sleep at night. For although he has traveled a lot, and acquired such heretical doctrines as International Federation, and Government Rule of Industry, he has never been to Russia, nor even taken up the fad and learned Russian. I am afraid his enthusiasm will not last...
...most interesting thing about "Winterset," currently being revived at the Copley Theatre, is the fact that it is a revival--of the Maxwell Anderson of several years ago. More particularly, it recalls vividly to mind the kind of work the man was doing, at that time, and it leaves the discouraging impression that since then he has been losing himself almost as rapidly as hopelessly. Then he was a man who was full of faith and sureness, who could say about the deaths of Mio and Miriamme: "This is the glory of both men and women." Perhaps things like that...
...which could be called good second-rate, some had first-rate assets-usually on the side of their entertainment value-but were definitely second-grade when placed alongside the best novels of their kind. They were...