Word: often
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These were the men who had gone beyond the turning-back, who had forcefully sworn their belief that repeal of the arms embargo was the first fateful footstep on a one-way road to war. Their votes and influence only two months ago had balked a then-irritable and often angry Franklin Roosevelt as he sought the embargo's repeal. They had forced adjournment without new neutrality legislation. And Borah had been their spokesman, as he quietly insisted in a White House night conference that he knew there would be no war-his sources of information were "better than...
Borah's shadow, and the threat it represented, had caused Franklin Roosevelt to change his mood and tactics. Suddenly honey-sweet to the press he had often lambasted, Franklin Roosevelt now turned his full charm on his opponents: solicitously he consulted Republican leaders about a special session; then on the dissident Democrats. Twice he called the Mississippi fox, Pat Harrison, by long-distance telephone. He condoled Georgia's Walter George on an eye-operation (13 months ago he strove to end George's career). He appointed James Elliott Heath (a close crony of Virginia's Carter...
...north fell the forest town of Bialystok, where Polish bigwigs and their guests (often Hermann Goring) used to hunt the stag and wild boar. The fortress at Brest-Litovsk was captured, 600 prisoners taken. The retreat into Rumania became a mad stampede. Two beg red fire engines and a hook-&-ladder from Cracow roared through, clustered with refugees. Polish officers & men swam the Dniester to elude customs officers, escape internment. Polish planes, nearly 200 of them, piled into the little Rumanian airport at Cernauti, one landing on three others, wrecking all four...
...field to 64, four rounds of 18-hole match play to determine the semifinalists, then 36-hole semifinal and final matches. Bobby Jones, who won it five times, used to call the National Amateur a nightmare. One flubbed iron, one balky putt, and the ruling champion often finds himself among the spectators...
...turning tamely classic could rush off to the Associated American Artists' businesslike galleries, where to most of the 58 members of An American Group, Inc. classic was a fighting word. Their exhibition of paintings, sculpture and wood carvings was as up-to-the-minute as an air raid, often as violent and savage...