Word: anarchistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are two pilots and a steward, an old professor and his wife on vacation, an effete young man eloping with a millionairess, a big-shot racketeer's little son in care of one of the mob, a tough girl on the lam from her past, an anarchist returning to his homeland gallows with a captor to whom he means a $5,000 reward...
...Hermann Kesten-Alliance ($2.50). On April 26, 1937, a row comes to a head in the large Espinosa family of Guernica, Spain; Uncle Pablo, the black sheep, mocks his kindly brother for his liberalism in the civil war; son and daughter are innocently involved in the murder of an anarchist leader; Father Espinosa cannot sell his chemist's shop and escape to France. German bombers sailing overhead end the family row and the Basque city of Guernica at the same time. Young Carlos escapes to Paris where he tells his powerful, grim story to German refugee Author Kesten...
...March 29 that the Spanish Civil War had officially ended. His troops had occupied Madrid, Valencia, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Jaén, Albacete-almost without resistance. Italian planes from Majorca had made a last bombing trip over Gandia, British-controlled Mediterranean port. A few anarchist soldiers were still putting up a feeble resistance in isolated districts and clean-up campaigns were bound to continue for some time. But, broadly speaking, Generalissimo Franco was right: the war was over and for the first time in 984 days Spain had peace...
...second term, left when his son-in-law was caught trafficking in Legion of Honor decorations. Casimir Périer got disgusted with his job. Paul Deschanel went crazy, tried to commit suicide by jumping out of a train, resigned. Two were assassinated: Sadi Carnot by an Italian anarchist in 1894, Paul Doumer by a Russian in 1932. Félix Faure died a natural death in office...
...Contrary to recent newspaper reports, "there is no evidence that cancer is a germ disease." Cancer is a wildfire growth of "anarchist cells" which have broken away from the normal rhythm of cell growth. These anarchist cells are found everywhere in nature: in mice, apes, dogs, horses, fishes, birds, insects, plants...