Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week. Carl Burckhardt is a Swiss and grandson of Historian Jakob Burckhardt, famed author of Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien. Before the Nazi Gleichschaltung, Biographer Burckhardt was League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig. To the writing of 17th-Century history he brings an unusual firsthand knowledge of 20th-century practical politics. He also brings a keen grasp of the political mind, a powerful prose style. He uses them for a kind of historical writing in which, instead of reading history, the reader seems to be taking part in politics...
Young People (20th Century-Fox). Legend has established U. S. vaudevillians as loudmouthed, softhearted, pertinacious vagabonds. It has established New Englanders as grim, laconic moralists. According to Young People it takes an act of God to reveal the goodness in either. When Joe and Kit Ballantine (portly Jack Oakie and aging Charlotte Greenwood), a veteran song & dance team, decide to give their dimpled foster daughter Wendy (Shirley Temple, retired) a solid New England background, they leave the footlights for a Vermont farm. In the obvious conflict that ensues, the natives win hands down...
...gate once more. A year ago, the citizens voted to legalize pari-mutuel betting, and last week the State Racing Commission, after five months' deliberation, sanctioned Jersey's first horse park since betting was outlawed in 1893. True to tradition, the operators of Jersey's first 20th-century race track will be the Monmouth Park Racing Association-a group headed by Horse Fancier Amory Lawrence Haskell, M.F.H., on whose Red Bank estate the tony Monmouth County Steeplechase is held each fall...
Three squadrons of the 1st Bombardment Group, Air Service, A. E. F., the 11th, the 20th and the 166th were equipped with the infamous American-built DH45 or flaming coffins, and dumped many tons of bombs on objectives in German-occupied territory from Sept. 13 to Nov. 11, 1918. Their losses, mostly from being shot down in flames, were appalling. When the Armistice went into effect there were three members of the original nth Squadron still on duty, and I was one of them...
...British guarantee of independence, but last week Great Britain was fighting for her own life. So Italy's Benito Mussolini, whose sense of vengeance, of history and of opportunity is as keen as Adolf Hitler's, saw his chance to add a piece to his dreamed of 20th-century Mediterranean Empire...