Word: butted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Home Secretary Sir John Anderson, a tight-lipped disciplinarian with a hard but twinkling eye, perfectly appreciates that the moderate whoopee requirements of Tommy Atkins on leave are all but irrepressible. Last week Sir John continued to maintain a firm laissez-faire stand toward London night life despite a great...
In flats deserted by wartime évacués from London, new clubs open almost every night. Sir John keeps an eye on them by means of occasional Scotland Yard "raids." The polite British inspectors merely take down the names of patrons in little notebooks, but do not close the...
Because of Britain's liquor-curbing early closing laws, extra-late London night life has for years been an affair of "bottle parties" -i.e., the guests either bring their own liquor, paying a stiff "corkage charge" or they leave advance orders at the club to have it sent in...
> Back in Cracow, Poland, from where he governs some 15,000,000 Poles,* Governor General Frank received a Russian delegation arriving by special train. Two years ago Dr. Frank called Germany the "protector against Bolshevistic terror" and said that the Germans would have "no dealings with Communism in Moscow or...
Rugged Shansi Province has for over two years been the key to the entire war in North China. Against it the Japanese have successively hurled three major campaigns and many little ones-all of which have blown up like light bulbs thrown against a wall. Because the province is as...