Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Conscience, rather than the terrible things to come, was the theme of the official British reply to Herr Hitler's ti rade. Britain's immediate press and radio reactions left no doubt that the Führer's appeal to reason would be laughed into thin air. The question Germany, Italy and the world's innocent bystanders wondered about was not what the British Government would say, but who would say it and how. The task fell to Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax, whose solemn, pious, sincere air has won him the nickname "Lord Holy Facts...
...Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll...
...Lusitania, makes Sometown feel angry frustration, determined to do something. But Congressman John Lawton says there is only one thing to be done, and no one wants to go to war. As 1915 falls flaming into 1916, this is true, but Sometowns over the U. S. look toward thin-faced, worried Woodrow Wilson, about to marry Mrs. Gait. When Charles Evans Hughes quits the Supreme Court to run against Wilson, and almost wins, a period in history is already drawing to a close. Sometown's main street sees its first Preparedness Day parade, and in Washington the parade...
Nine months ago, thin-faced, two-fisted Oilman Edward L. Shea left the vice-presidency of Tidewater Associated Oil Co. to head a $940,000,000 utility holding company system, Harrison Williams' North American Co. Oilman Shea knew he was moving into a trouble spot. Firecrackers had exploded under North American for nearly two years, and one of the new man's presumptive duties was to stop the noise. But the explosions did not even taper off. Last week they threatened to grow louder...
...crack subsidiaries, earns for North American about $6,000,000 a year. Across the street from Union Electric on Twelfth Boulevard stands the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the great Pulitzer newspaper whose mission is policing the community. P-D's public-utility reporter, a thin-haired A. E. F. sergeant named Sam Shelton, had long been convinced that Union Electric was buying politicians. Two years ago he got a break when Union Electric's moose-tall aristocratic president Louis H. Egan eased out a vice president named Oscar Funk. Funk, who had handled Union Electric's expense...