Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mussolini, who has mobilized in Europe 1,000,000 soldiers, not to mention his 300,000 in Africa. In London II Duce's envoy, Dino Grandi, kept saying: "Now is the time to settle everything" - i.e., to make a Vansittart Ethiopian peace and a Vansittart German peace. The august London Times raised its deep voice in harmony with this attitude...
...light "Dowmetal" and are donated by the Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan. With these and the new coronal camera, Dr. Menzel, who observed the eclipse of May, 1932, from Freiburg, Germany, expects to gain much new material which will be the subject for his lectures to be given in August at the Summer School session...
...coat blew open revealing its wearer to be of the First or Third Regiment of the Tokyo Division, he was probably one of the dastards and not a regular army man. With the Empire cut off from the world as Japanese censors clamped down on cables and radio, the August Land of the Rising Sun or Dai Nippon (as Japanese poetically call their Empire) faced the World with a blank wall of sheer Mystery. In Washington the State Department, for all the erudition of its Far East Section, knew nothing for certain, was as much out of contact with Joseph...
...come out from behind the moat and do or say something last week before the mystery could in any way lift. Out came not-particularly-well-known General Kohei Kashii and roared that he was the divinely appointed new Military Governor of the Japanese capital. Normally the august name of the Son of Heaven is considered too sacred to be mentioned or invoked, but last week's emergency was clearly supreme and General Kashii rasped: "Orders to establish an emergency guard over conditions in Tokyo have been issued to the First Division. 'BY COMMAND OF THE EMPEROR...
...Last August, Works Progress Administration put Mrs. Hallie Flanagan of the Vassar Experimental Theatre in charge of its new Federal Theatre Project, whose aim was to employ idle stage folk "in the profession for which they have been trained." Since then FTP has made 9,000 jobs, put on circuses, marionette shows, vaudeville programs, revivals of the classics at high schools, playgrounds, Y. M. C. A.'s from Springfield, Mass, to San Diego, Calif. In show business only seven months, the U. S. Government last week reached the goal of all theatrical enterprises: Broadway...