Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gazzetta del Popolo of Turin reported last week that a battalion of the French infantry, under Lieutenant Colonel Dupont, had deserted to Switzerland because the men were perturbed by the international situation. Beneath this story in very small type, La Gazzetta added...
...Gaya, India, when a Moslem housewife heaved a pot of cooked beef at her husband, the gobbets hit a Hindu girl passing beneath the window. Result: a street riot (beef is sacred to Hindus), six killed, 75 injured...
...least one of which -padding the city payroll with 555 voters -brought Quin an indictment (later quashed). Mayor Quin replied by branding Maury Maverick a Communist, a C. I. 0.-lover, an irresponsible rabble rouser. A third candidate, 29-year-old Leroy Jeffers, entered the race shouting that beneath Maury Maverick's white shirt was a Red undershirt. That let Maury go into his War dance about his Argonne shell wound, crying, "That undershirt was red [with Maverick blood] so that little boys like Leroy Jeffers could be protected...
...shadows lengthened beneath the stately Plympton Street elms and the evening breeze whispered through the leaves, dignified Harvard men, strolling along the green paths of the ancient Yard, murmured to one another, "Ah, yes, 23 to 2, I understand...
...Beneath the surface of the news, bigger forces were in motion. Hitler's Germany warned that the post-War world had ended. Its end was soon thundered by the renewed sound of big guns pounding in Japan's 1932 attack on Shanghai. Crises began to come so fast, were reported so fully, speculated about so constantly, that they became horrifyingly familiar: a crisis over the League censure of Japan for seizing Manchukuo, followed by crises over the brief civil war in Austria, the assassinations of Dollfuss and of King Alexander of Yugoslavia, over the invasion of Ethiopia...