Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...that "never again would any dictator . . . dare to ask his people to face a world war." With all respect to such brilliant non-believers as his present chief, Winston Churchill, who was among those who refused to support Chamberlain's policy, Baxter wrote Maclean's: "It may seem a small thing for a group of men to refuse to support their leader. Actually it is one of the crudest decisions that a politician must make. ... It is against the enthusiasms and affection which come to men who have played on the same team. . . ." He added proudly: "I . . . voted...
...many Americans the events of the last 15 months have made the Armistice seem less important and less worthy of a national holiday. So last week Dr. Francis Carr Stifler, editorial secretary of the American Bible Society, suggested that it would be far more appropriate to celebrate the anniversary of the Mayflower Compact this Monday...
Townseller Moran owns none of the property he sells, works on a commission basis under contract to banks and companies that do. Prosperous, soft-tongued, he convinces purchasers his towns are not so decadent as they seem. Believing that prosperity will bring some new company to Pattontown, he advertised "this is not a ghost town-mine operations will resume at an early date." Since Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman has his eye on ghost towns, has begun investigating "shutdown areas" with a view to their use in defense, Frank Moran's optimism may make sense...
...always compassionately, the heckled romance of Franz Ferdinand (John Lodge), heir to Franz Josef's Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Sophie Chotek (Edwige Feuillere), his morganatic Czech wife. Its numerous revelations of Austrian pre-war court life, quite familiar now to fans long exposed to the Viennese nobility, seem new only in a simpler, more personalized view of Franz Josef (Jean Worms), the scheming Prince Montenuovo (Aime Clariond) and other appendages of the state and social hierarchy. But historically, the film-a logical sequel to 1937's teary, highly successful Mayerling-submits the suggestion that Franz Ferdinand...
...York City they received a radiogram from the League of American Writers, summoning them to a banquet at Manhattan's Hotel Commodore. Thinking they had been rescued by the Emergency Rescue Committee, Authors Mann and Werfel were puzzled. But not wishing to seem rude, they said: all right, they would come...