Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upon a time those words made U. S. bugles blow, flags wave, men march. Last week the bugles were still; the flags gathered dust in museums; many of those marching men had made a separate peace. And into another sort of grave-the pigeonholes of diplomacy-went the principle for which U. S. blood made red puddles in French mud 21 years...
...Royal is Great Britain's newest 22,000-ton aircraft carrier. Her loss, eight days after the torpedoing of the Courageous, would be a horrible blow to British morale as well as to the Navy. If she were still afloat, the British Admiralty was not tricked into telling where the Ark Royal was, but did announce she was "safe & sound at her allotted station." Admiral Sir Charles Forbes, Commander in Chief of the Home Fleet, dismissed the North Sea bombing as a slight episode and observed that it was done from "really too great a height-some...
...Blow of the week was struck by the British, who put out a story which, if widely circulated in Germany, might do more than 100 Allied divisions to put skids under A. Hitler...
...last week the Latin American trade winds had already begun to blow toward the U. S., bringing inquiries and orders (not yet tabulated by the U. S. Department of Commerce) for goods once bought in Europe. Typical examples...
Rejected Guest is at once a cracking, to-hell-with-it summary of Aldington's grievances and a fable which brings the wheel full circle, from war to war. Its hero is a "War baby," the by-blow of a high-minded 1914 romance between an aristocratic infantry subaltern (later killed) and the belle of a small industrial town. Brought up by his maternal grandparents after his shamed mother leaves town, little David finds out what he is when he is knocked down, kicked and called a bastard on his first day at school. When...