Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lagged far behind U. S. public opinion. Hostility to Russia that swept up with the German-Russian Pact, that turned into contempt at weird Russian claims of Finnish aggression, flared to new highs, led to loud demands that the U. S. break off diplomatic relations with Russia. Said Senator King of Utah: "My country will no longer grasp the bloody hands of Stalin." Said Senator Vandenberg: "There is no rational alternative except to drive every trace of Communism and Naziism out of the U. S." Said Senator Russell of Georgia, "Of all the terrible incidents of this year, this...
...duller moments; the scenery could have been done by Painter Adolf Hitler suddenly turned Cubist; the dialogue could have been written by a slightly tipsy Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. All in all, the Russian act that led up to its invasion of Finland last week was a weird parody, rather than a Slavish plagiarism, of Nazi methods...
...Thin Man formula (exciting murder mystery plus fast, racy dialogue plus an equable, wisecracking, Scotch-bibbing married couple plus real people in a weird jumbling together of underworld and overworld) was good for several more workings...
...pilot may be attacked by sickness similar to the dread staggers, bends, or caisson disease of divers. Cause of "aeroembolism" is formation of nitrogen bubbles in the blood and spinal fluid. Symptoms are neuritis, joint pains, a heavy red rash, burning and stabbing pain in the lungs, a weird tingling "like a small compact colony of ants rushing madly over the surface of the body." For aeroembolism, only thing to do is come down in a hurry...
...former Freshman Athletic Building, now used by three was changed to the old Hemenway Gymnasium, whence at length the classes arrived at their present location, a third story indoor Athletic Building room filled with medicine balls, stools, mats, ladders parallel to the floor and walls, and other weird apparatus...