Word: stickful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Austrian politicians stick together in a crisis, but when crisis is past Austria's Cabinet is apt to fall. Last week Chancellor Otto Ender & Cabinet were forced to resign after averting an Austrian panic with an agreement whereby the State guarantees the liabilities of Austria's key bank, her great and almost bankrupt Kreditanstalt (TIME, June 8). Although Dr. Ender had deserved well of Austria, his friends & enemies preferred not to associate themselves with the guarantee his Cabinet had given, hence they permitted it to fall...
...custom a Cabinet must stick by its President through the hottest Washington summer. Last year the Drought kept President Hoover and therefore most of his Cabinet in and around the Capital. This year, however, it is generally assumed that the President will go holidaying somewhere, sometime. On the strength of this assumption his Cabinet members have been busily planning how and when to get out of Washington. First to announce his vacation plans last week was Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. Late this month he will sail for two months in Europe, visiting Italy, France, Germany and Britain...
...Peace (Hugh Cameron) whose lampoon of a toper is as amusing as Robert Middlemass' broad portrayal of the sturdy Western parent. At one point, when Mr. Middlemass has particularly good cause to suspect his daughter of impure conduct, he pulls a revolver, threatens to "let this hell stick start spitting all over the place." Unexpected Husband is inoffensively rough-&-tumble diversion...
...blooded countries when they are highly organized soon happened. A marching column of young Fascists pounced on a Papal State mail truck, halted by their parade in the square directly in front of Premier Mussolini's offices. One hot youth promptly attacked the truck driver with a stick, fetched him a blow on the arm. That night Catholic Christendom rang with the outrage. Catholics stated that some of His Holiness' own personal mail was in the truck. (It was delivered safely.) Next came an editorial in the Papal daily Osseroatore Romano complaining of ''Fascist outrages...
...best women he'll ever see while in college"); his word-coining ("quacktitioner," "pluviculture," "sciosophy" meaning organized ignorance); his abhorrence of liquor, tobacco, ignorance, arrogance, vulgarity (he said some people should write a "V" before their names); a fine old Tolstoyan sitting in the sun with his blackthorn stick and shepherd...