Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Straight went Trotsky to seek famed Lenin who then lived in London, writing in the Reading Room of the British Museum the revolutionary tracts which were to alter the world. Trotsky, always impatient, rushed immediately to Lenin's house and routed him out just before dawn. The majestically calm genius of Lenin and the excited, flashing genius of Trotsky led then and there to a long, foggy, disputatious walk in the vicinity of Westminster Abbey...
Simultaneously, Italy's rival merchant marine reorganized into four groups each covering one section of the seven seas and operating under a holding company named Finmare.* Finmare's first job will be to alter the Rex to try to recapture the Blue Riband of the Atlantic...
...brother T. V. Soong, who is the financial kingpin of China, and her brother-in-law, Dr. H. H. Kung, who took on the functions of Premier in China's awful emergency, held the destiny of Eastern Asia in their hands. One false move, they knew, might alter the course of world history to China's disadvantage, and yet what moves could they make...
...costume drama, dated 1875, in which the cinema's No. 1 boy soprano lifts his clear and bell-like voice through a gamut of songs from Ave Maria to Swanee River, from The Flower Song by Dr. Hugo Reisenfeld to Rainbow on the River by Paul Webster & Louis Alter. When not adroitly playing his own accompaniments on an adult size banjo. Soprano Breen shows himself past master of vaudeville song-plugging technique, including clenched fists, rolling eyes and trembling smile...
...long standing-not politicians suddenly turned "King's Men," but the urbane Gentlemen of the Royal Household-a measure of tranquillity has existed all through last week's constitutional crisis. While recognizing that the tremendous forces unleashed may get beyond control and suddenly alter the succession to the Throne, they recall the flair of King George for arriving at astonishingly simple common-sense solutions of royal complications...