Word: scowlingly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Aides of John L. Lewis pulled down the sign and erased the lettering. At 9:50 a.m. John Lewis arrived, bull shoulders hunched, and clumped inside. There he fixed waiting newsmen with his scowl. Would Mr. Lewis discuss his promise to resign as C. I. 0. head if Roosevelt were reelected? Labor's most enigmatic leader good-naturedly brushed the question aside...
Since the Year One (of Fascism-1922) Benito Mussolini had given his people a martial slogan: "Believe! Obey! Fight!" He hurried from naval reviews to maneuvers at sea, from military exercises to parades to grandiose mock campaigns on land. He learned to salute like Caesar, scowl like Napoleon, wear uniforms like the Kaiser. Of all his Cabinet portfolios, his favorites were those of War, Navy, Air Force. He raised a whole generation of young Italians-among them his own sons -to live dangerously, to consider pacifism a bourgeois vice, to take sensuous, esthetic pleasure from the pattern of exploding bombs...