Word: un
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left a note saying he was going to a rendezvous with General Nicholas Skobline, one of his assistants. The note ended: "Peut-être c'est un guet-apens" (Perhaps it is an ambush). There are witnesses who later that day saw a big box carried on board the Soviet freighter which lay unloading hides at Le Havre. Without completing her unloading, without properly clearing port, the Mary a Ulyanova cast her hawsers and scuttled...
...conductor appears as composer in two so-called "Nature Poems," orchestrated last year from a set of three written in 1919. This curiously un-vital music consists of a slight Pastoral and a more amusing Bacchanal, composed in a rather wayward French style, uncommonly exotic for an Englishman. The treatment of the orchestra is less brilliant than one might expect...
This social mess has a particularly un fortunate effect on love: it results in what Spenlove-McFee calls another Gresham's law,* in which good love, i. e., based on mutual class interests, hasn't got a chance. Through Spenlove, a lower middle-class student in "the natural history of the well-to-do," Author McFee has a direct mouthpiece for his ironic reflections on the state of the U. S. rich (whose uneasiness, one gathers, serves them right...
...investigation of un-American activities Mr. Dies has brought principally a $25,000 appropriation, a willingness (common to Congressional ferrets) to hear what he believes, a succession of renegade leftists, ex-union officers and members turned talebearer, avowed spies, patriotic citizens bursting with information about the Reds. Mr. Dies also has taken testimony about U. S. Nazis and Fascists, has even accepted aspersions against such personages as Tom Girdler. But in the main he has stayed on the Red trail previously traversed by New York's Representative Hamilton Fish...
...prepared for, asked whether the testimony about Governor Murphy gave the President concern. Mr. Roosevelt said extemporaneous remarks on the subject might not be printable, proceeded to issue an extraordinary written statement for quotation: "I was very much disturbed . . . because a Congressional committee charged with the responsibility of investigating un-American activities should have permitted itself to be used in a flagrantly unfair and un-American attempt to influence an election. . . . On the threshold of a vitally important gubernatorial election, they permitted a disgruntled Republican judge, a discharged Republican city manager and a couple of officious police officers to make...