Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...choice is between the concentration camp and the battlefield," Laski declared, advocating a militant socialist policy, "and the time has come for Ideal Right to take Might unto itself...
...House-to-house fighting is the enemy's style, not ours," General Franco told correspondents. "That is just what they want, but we are not going to oblige them because we can always prove our superiority in the open battlefield, and we do not have to take Teruel their...
...Human Hearts (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is dedicated to the proposition that a boy's best friend is his mother, proves its point by the legend that Abraham Lincoln once summoned a young officer from a Civil War battlefield to tell him so. But before it begins gesturing at its stagy moral, Of Human Hearts does a patient, workmanlike job of reconstructing life in an early 19th-Century Ohio River outpost. Of Human Hearts follows the lives of a stalwart, righteous circuit rider (Walter Huston), his wife (Beulah Bondi) and his son Jason (as a boy, eleven-year-old Gene...
Curator The National Battlefield Museum Fredericksburg...
...nightmarish Dreams & Lies of Franco (TIME, Dec. 27); Salvador Dali, with The Specter of Sex Appeal, in which a nai've little boy regards an enormous figure, half-flesh, half-bone, straddling an idyllic background; Andre Masson, with Dilettantes of Corpses, showing gowned ecclesiastics leaving a corpsy battlefield with expressions of pious approval; Frans Masereel, with News event, a horror panorama of agonized soldiers, screaming mobs and weeping women, and in the lower right-hand corner a well-dressed citizen reading a newspaper and smoking a cigar...