Word: buts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moscow's smart move of withdrawing her armored trains stilled nearly all talk of intervention at Washington, London, Paris. But it was probably Tokyo which caused Manchuria's Chang to sue for a separate peace. Japan has huge commercial interests in Manchuria. In the past she has subsidized both Governor...
Mounted gunmen hired by Ferocious Fimbres recently located the Apaches?a small tribe said to number only 25?on an almost inaccessible fortified plateau, high in the Sierra Madre Mountains. "This time they cannot escape!" Fimbres exulted last week. "Blood of God's Mother, I have waited three years ! It...
Wall Street (Columbia). Spectators who wonder whether the timeliness of this film's background?a stockmarket panic?is the result of extraordinary financial foresight or extraordinary speed in production should be informed that it is simply luck. In plot and characters Wall Street is less lucky. It presents the fundamentally...
The Taming of the Shrew (United Artists). When Shakespeare made characters out of medieval chronicles just like the living English people he knew, and wrote words for them which often sounded like real talk in spite of being broken up into iambic lines, he was doing what the producers of...
Every architect knows, and most of them admire, the strong, stark, massive group of reinforced concrete warehouses that form a good part of the Bush Terminal. The work of Architect William Higginson, they are praised, described in many a book on industrial architecture. Fittingly enough, last week Builder Bush was...