Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...died away, when the Capitol police unbutton collars and open night-school lawbooks, and the fat rats begin their soft scuttling around the old statues-then, says legend, the great ghosts of the U. S. past meet for nightly debate over the day's issues. One sweet autumn night last week those historic phantoms had a new historic event to talk over. For as surely as if the votes were already counted, as definitely as if the President had already signed the bill, the U. S. had that day finally jettisoned a principle as old as John Paul Jones...
...turns into an idyll. He finds himself on the Riviera, with an allowance of a thousand pounds a year, chaperoned by a worldly-wise epigrammatist, soon in bed with an authentic beauty named Diana, to whom he writes verses. War talk is just a bore at first. But that autumn is the autumn...
...still China was the loser. Those white men who had been helping her a little to fend off other yellow men's attacks were now too busy even to do that. By innocence, weakness, timidity, China had got herself in for what promised to be a furious autumn campaign. Last week the campaign began. The theatre: South China. The tactic: a flanking movement to cut the rich rump of China from every blood supply...
...distinctly. The solid green and chocolate drapes could not be seen at 5,000 feet, could not be photographed at 10,000 feet. Result: from now on, well dressed U. S. Army trucks, tanks, big guns will carry solid green drapes for summer wartime wear, solid brown drapes for autumn...
...occasional steer to hopeful dedicates. To the University of Georgia went Native Son Lamar Dodd. Dartmouth called home its own Paul Sample. Muralist Thomas Benton spurned all Missouri compromises during four stormy years teaching and painting at Kansas City's Art Institute. Frank Mechau Jr. was called this autumn to Columbia University...