Word: neither
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...person in the room doubted Franklin Roosevelt's sincerity, but neither was anyone in the slightest doubt as to where lay the sympathy, the potent human partisanship, of this President of the United States. He was against Germany, against the aggressor, against totalitarianism, against Adolf Hitler the dictator and Adolf Hitler the man perhaps mad. His every word henceforth would be weighed in the light of his own injunction, which he now laid upon the Press, to stick rigidly to the facts because "that's best for our own nation-and for civilization." His deeds and those...
...gave his word that he neither wished nor intended to annex Austria; he broke...
Couturier Mainbocher started neither the corset nor the idea of reviving it this year, but his sponsorship was the fillip the trend needed. Mainbocher is a slim, blond, fluty young man who used to play the piano for Cobina Wright, graduated to the editorship of Paris Vogue. He opened his salon ten years ago with the backing of Mrs. Gilbert ("Kitty") Miller (daughter of Financier Jules S. Bache), Lady Mendl (the former Elsie de Wolfe and the Comtesse de Valombrosa), reached an ecstatic crescendo of popularity and envy when he beat Mme Elsa Schiaparelli and other dressmakers...
...high in the military junta. When President Sorzano ruled too long by decree, Lieut. Colonel Busch was the Army's choice to supplant him. Last spring, banking on his enormous prestige with Bolivia's tea-colored masses, he declared a totalitarian State which he insisted derived from neither Germany nor Italy (TIME...
Author Train takes his best pokes at screwball laws. Samples: a Los Angeles ordinance forbidding "more than one person bathing in or occupying a bathtub at the same time"; a statute stating that "when two trains approach each other at a crossing, both shall stop and neither shall start until the other has gone...