Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With big fuses sputtering among Europe's political high explosives, China's War has recently looked like a chain of twopenny firecrackers. But if a possible European blow-up involved Russia, what Japan was doing in the Far East would become vitally important. For some time there has been a lull in hostilities during which Japan was reported moving large numbers of troops to Manchukuo-on hand for anti-Russian duty. Last week Japan ended the lull and made it clear that while its right hand remained clenched against Russia, its left was going right on lighting firecrackers...
...Chicago Art Institute's large and brilliant International Watercolor show,* visitors congregated around Ivan Le Lorraine Albright's When Fall Winds Blow, a portrait of two junky old houses. Reason: Submitted last year under the title Second Stories Are Popular, it was rejected because of a pink nude in one window. Artist Albright had now partly covered the girl with a shutter, painted not on the canvas but on the glass in front...
...BLOW-DOWN-Lawrence G. Blochman -Harcourt, Brace ($2). Death, destruction and international intrigue on a Caribbean banana plantation. First-rate plot, pace and background. (Appearing serially in Collier's as The Resounding Skies...
...more than two years they lived in rebel territory, organizing the peasants to blow up trains, block roads, out communications, and harass rightist front lines...
...churchmen perennially watch for signs of a U. S. religious revival, are perennially pleased to think they see such signs. An unkind blow were two surveys of U. S. opinion released this week. Not conclusive (because neither provided any conclusive comparison with the past), they were nevertheless far from encouraging...