Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affair of the Italian bombers was easily the outstanding event of a bloody and nerve-wracking week. It not only meant that Spain's Civil War had now passed beyond the Pyrenees, but that for the first time, Fascism, like Communism, had become an international force. No labor struggle, no class warfare can break out anywhere in the world without expressions of sympathy, and sometimes cash contributions from Moscow's Third International. Italy now was apparently undertaking to support a foreign outbreak of Fascism in the same way. Correspondents with the northern rebel armies near Burgos were quick...
...unduly sensitive to public, or rather informed financial opinion. The reason is that those who disregard this opinion seem, in the end, to be 'unlucky.' . . . The aspect of dealing with oneself will be more obvious to outsiders than to those of us who have followed the affair...
...guns and tanks. Next he tried to think what to do with South China's comparatively well-trained 200,000 "regular" Chinese soldiers who will find time hanging heavy if they are not provided with some sort of activity. The entire South China rebellion, it appeared, was an affair not of lead bullets but of "silver bullets," the elegant Chinese euphemism for bribes too stupendous to be called "squeeze...
Nazi newspapers, which had given Swimmer Jarrett more publicity than any other member of the U. S. team, headlined the affair, congratulated Chairman Brundage and his committee on their stand...
Greatly agitated by such general talk of misconduct, Chairman Brundage loudly deplored "this unpleasant affair," took a final fling at Mrs. Jarrett: "At the second [committee] meeting more than an hour was devoted to ascertaining the facts as to reports that Mrs. Jarrett, occupying a room with two young swimmers, could not be aroused by the team's physician and the ship's doctor...