Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sydney last week Australia's Prime Minister Joseph Aloysius Lyons, 59, contracted a chill in the damp autumn weather; two days later he lay dead of a heart attack. His death ended his administration at seven years, three months -just two weeks short of the record made by Prime Minister William Morris Hughes...
...along with Adolf Hitler. Time after time Führer Hitler has torn up treaties, ignored agreements, threatened neighboring States with invasion. As many times Britain has looked the other way. When, three weeks ago, the Führer moved into a Czechoslovakia which he had already dismembered last autumn, even the most credulous of British statesmen were shocked. They recognized then that Herr Hitler had embarked on a policy of conquest aimed at nothing less than domination of Europe, if not the world. Last week they reacted...
...Chamberlain began mildly repeating his protest of last autumn that he was a "man of peace to the depth of my soul." He repeated his oft-expressed views that any attempt to dominate the world must still be resisted. Then he recalled Herr Hitler's pledge (to him and to the world) that Nazi Germany had no further territorial ambitions in Europe. Said the Prime Minister bluntly: "Those assurances have now been thrown to the winds absolutely." Said he in words that will either alter the course of European history or will for years be thrown back contemptuously into...
...homely oldster. The young man was Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe, 29, recently made assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly. The old man was Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, wittiest man of his day, unofficial Boston poet laureate, last surviving petal of the literary flowering of New England. By the next autumn, feeling "like my own survivor," Dr. Holmes had died quietly at 85 in his armchair. It was their only meeting. But of the next New England literary generation, Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe has come nearest, by temperament if not by talent, to carrying on the Holmes traditions...
...Oxford's Balliol College, became Anglican chaplain of Trinity College. Converted to Catholicism before the War, he was ordained priest in 1919. In 1926, the year he became Oxford's chaplain, Father Knox scared England over the radio just as Orson Welles scared the U. S. last autumn: he broadcast a lurid account of a revolution in London, complete with Big Ben Tower blown up, the National Gallery ablaze. Famed at Oxford is "Ronnie" Knox's reply to a fellow-undergraduate who wrote the Hegelian limerick...