Word: seene
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Whether these four men could work smoothly together, unanimous on all important points, remained to be seen. On one point they were in complete agreement. Day after their appointment they called upon the U. S. public "to recognize the full gravity of the crisis . . . pull off their coats and roll up their sleeves. . . . The contest which produced this crisis is irreconcilable in character and cannot be terminated by any methods of appeasement." With Bill Knudsen's "terrible urgency" becoming more actual every day, the Big Four's teamwork would be visible very soon...
Intimates of Their Majesties last week received cards on which the King and Queen were seen standing in front of the bombed portion of Buckingham Palace. This type of greeting a good many Britons cheerfully called a "Blitzmas Card." Sold in the shops like hot cakes were many reading "Wishing You Anything But A Jerry Christmas!" Other humorists sent imitation ration cards, but most Britons sent the traditional type of Christmas card, as did Queen Mary, who chose again a rustic flower garden and quaint cottage. But this year Her Majesty's greeting read, "There'll always...
...Panama for the Panamanians" is the slogan on which President Arias was elected, with the help of his steamroller machine. Arnulfo Arias is a young and patriotic man who fears his native land is losing its identity. He has seen most of its retail business taken over by Chinese, Eastern Europeans and East Indians. He has seen Jamaica Negroes, first imported to build the Canal, monopolize jobs on that waterway. He has seen the import business, utilities and banking taken over by Anglo-Saxon Americans, by the British and by Germans. He has heard English spoken on the streets...
...State-subsidized theatre on record. In four years it spent almost enough money to build a battleship ($46,000,000), employed 13,000 people at its peak, gave 63,600 performances of 1,200 major productions to audiences of 30,300,000, of whom some 65% had never before seen a living actor at work. This whopping project was run by tiny, greenish-eyed Hallie Flanagan, head of Vassar College's Experimental Theatre. Last week Hallie Flanagan published an ardent, lively history of Federal Theatre, Arena (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3), winding up with a blast at the politicos...
...gypsy was quickly pardoned by George II. Reason: a swarm of witnesses were uncovered to swear they had seen that unforgettably hideous face far from London at the time of the crime. Soon it was Elizabeth Canning who was being tried, for perjury. Found guilty, she was exiled to Connecticut. In the two trials, involving 134 witnesses, the hag was clearly proved to have been in a London suburb in January 1753, and at the same time to have been several counties away. This forms "the strangest enigma that ever faced a court of law," says Lawyer Barrett R. Wellington...