Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"It is obviously no accident that the end of a century of free migration from Europe should have been followed immediately by a wave of revolutionary imperialism in the very region of Europe where the pressure of surplus population is the greatest and the post-war impoverishment the most acute...
A glance at the billing shows the Ritz Brothers to be featured in the minor picture, but this should not prejudice any except the most violent anti-Ritzists against the program as a whole. Only a few very dull sequences have found their way into this latest, horsey attempt, and...
*All English mass dailies still offer cheap accident insurance to subscribers, but last fortnight cut their top figure from ?5,000 to ?2,500 for railway victims. Subscribers killed in motor accidents get from ?250 to ?500.
First big challenge came from Northcliffe in the celebrated Free Insurance War. The Mail, with nearly two million readers, offered ?1,000 free accident insurance to every subscriber, and the Express, with 450,000 readers, countered with ?2,000. In a few months both were offering ?10,000. The war...
Monomark is a ludicrous egocentric who eats little but raw onions and oatmeal, is surrounded by slavish sycophants who toady to his ignorant misconceptions, abuses his distracted underlings and usually triumphs by some absurdly fortuitous accident. In 1930 Lord Beaverbrook sent Waugh to cover the Ethiopian coronation. Waugh repaid him...