Word: oftener
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...June 22: that France's Chief of State is no stooge of Adolf Hitler, of Pierre Laval, or of anybody else. Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain is old, crotchety, painstaking, slow. He is also honorable, patriotic and, when he takes the advice of a few trusted friends, often a clever political tactician. Last week his political tactics seemed about to get France into big, bad trouble with her conquerors...
Patriotic Chinese say that Mr. Chou (pronounced Joe) has few talents and no virtues. He was educated in Japan. He looks like an old-fashioned Chinese scholar, but has the exaggerated manners of a Japanese corporal. He has turned his political coat so often that it looks threadbare even in Nanking. He started out a Communist. In 1927 he was converted to the following of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In 1928 he wrote a book on China's Hero Sun Yatsen, which Chinese now sneer at as his "knocking brick'' (Chinese used to knock on doors with...
...France. She announced her engagement to a surgeon from Hamburg, Germany, but nothing came of that betrothal. The name of Mme. Pons began to be obbligatoed by that of balding, businesslike, Russian-born Mr. Kostelanetz. Lengthy was Kosty's courtship, during which he crossed the continent so often that U. S. airlines gave him a silver mug as their No. 1 passenger. He also dispatched to Singer Pons, in Hollywood, a 300-lb. piano...
...fabulous bushy red eyebrows. From his office window he keeps a sharp eye on the campus, often roars commands across the green at boisterous lower-formers. The story goes that only once did the Doc's roars fail to achieve their intended effect. A kitchen worker ran amok through the Middle House one morning, brandishing a cleaver. When the man paid no heed to the Doc's bellowing, Dr. Hume took off his coat, knocked the fellow down, sat on his chest and calmly told his pupils to call the police...
Charles Kettering has often said that U. S. industry lived for more than a decade on the fruits of its World War I research. The 1940 Revolution subjected Business still more to the rule of politics, but it spurred such technological advances as have made U. S. Business great...