Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next day the captains of all the warships in Cromarty Firth read the Admiralty's new orders to their crews. Ships were ordered to put out to sea and return to their home ports. British papers glossed over the next few hours: they were the tensest in the entire affair. Ringleaders refused to believe that once at sea they would not be sent to distant stations in punishment. It took two hours to get the anchors up. Grim laced sub-lieutenants slipped into their lockers for side arms. Correspondents passed over what happened below decks before the fleet steamed...
...News printed a photograph from the U. S. cinema What Price Glory? It showed a disheveled, drunken Captain Flagg scuffling with Sergeant Quirt over an estaminet table. Below was a pithy caption: "Not British Discipline." Since then British Discipline has suffered many a rude shock. There was the disgraceful affair off Malta in 1928 when Rear Admiral Bernard St. George Collard was compulsorily retired for shameful conduct, such as insulting Bandmaster Percy Barnacle (TIME, March 6, 1928 et seq.). Last January the crew of the submarine tender Lucia mutinied on a rumor that their Christmas leave was to be cancelled...
...presence of events of exceptional gravity. What a fine peace organization that is!" Army Out of Hand? Meantime, the Japanese armies continued to hold Mukden. The Japanese Cabinet expressed itself as being very much embarrassed. That, apparently, was just what the militarist faction intended it should be. The Mukden affair seemed to boil down to a struggle in Japanese politics, upon the outcome of which hinged the peace of the Orient...
...novelty, The Mad Parade is neither an unusual nor a particularly interesting picture. The women, drinking brandy out of hot water bottles, cooking doughnuts, scuttling about in relief camps and shell holes and finally marooned in a besieged dugout, seem mainly animated by feelings of curiosity about the affair the heroine is having with an aviator. She is confiding details of this affair to her best friend when the rat appears. The hand grenade misses the rat, kills another one of the girls who was eavesdropping, after which Evelyn Brent volunteers to make a dash for help, gets killed also...
...high-class tenement house. The story concerns all the people who live in it, but chiefly the Maurrants who give the other tenants cause for talk-derisive, frightened, sympathetic- on the dingy front stoop. Mr. Maurrant is a stage technician; his wife (Estelle Taylor) is having an affair with a bill collector. One day Maurrant comes home before he is expected, sees the shades pulled down in the window of his flat. He goes upstairs and shoots his wife and her lover. Police catch him in a cellar down the street. The Maurrants' daughter (Sylvia Sidney) watches him taken...