Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...edge of the little Alabama sawmill town of Hodgetown. Jim and Andrew Tallon grew up in a situation that was set like a time-bomb for some future explosion. Andrew was a powerful, slow-minded, poetic young man who had been laughed at throughout his boyhood because of his harelip and crippled speech. Jim was a wiry, passionate young mill-hand who had defended Andrew all his life. When innocent, Georgia-born Myrtle Bickerstaff came to town and was paired with Andrew at a church social, won his pathetic devotion and fell in love with his brother, she provided...
...fuse of Author March's time-bomb burns down slowly. Written in a slow, subdued prose that sometimes suggests that of Sherwood Anderson, sometimes that of William Faulkner in his less melodramatic moments, The Tallons is the work of a novelist whose increasingly powerful talent most alert readers will want to watch. Born in Mobile, Ala. in 1894, William March, whose real name is William E. March Campbell, published his first novel, Company K, three years ago, followed it with a strong but uneven study of the psychological effects of a lynching in Come in at the Door. Educated...
...forbidden in the streets. For a few paralyzing hours word flashed through the city that White bombers had broken the rail line to Valencia. that Madrid was completely cut off. German and Italian aviators, the only people on the Iberian Peninsula who seemed to know how to set a bomb sight, had indeed struck the embankment of the Madrid-Valencia line in their strafing for Spain's Whites, but 90 minutes later traffic was resumed...
...From a Manhattan platform, unhappy Alfred E. Smith (see p. 18) snarled at the New Deal: "Why, even a Communist with wire whiskers and a smoking bomb in his hand is welcome, as long as he signs on the dotted line...
...attention whatever last week when he received an anonymous letter warning him that Manila would burn the following night. The police went to bed and slept as hard as usual. Suddenly in the early hours of the morning there was an explosion. Then another and another. Just how many bombs went off nobody knew. Five or six unexploded bombs were discovered. One bomb wrecked part of a hotel. Another blew up the chief water-main serving the northern part of the city. Fifteen fires by explosions started in various places. Bombed and burned with a loss...