Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again they corrected rumors that Madrid had fallen, and although what they sent could not be printed, editors were kept posted by the State Department in Washington and the British Foreign Office. Madrid's defenders appeared to have more airplanes and more ammunition than anyone in the journalistic camp had expected. Cautious Generalissimo Franco, with the Red Militia finally driven back across the Manzanares River, which opposed the Whites like a gigantic trench, swung his Moors around to a point where the bank sloped more easily and the water was shallower, then resumed bombardment and bombing which observers estimated...
...National Union," said Father Coughlin of his organization day after election, "may be compared to Joe Louis in his recent fight against Max Schmeling. Our aim now is a trip to the showers, and a new training camp for our comeback, if and when it is required...
Today, at the end of the post-war era, these first pleasant dreams of permanent peace have been shattered in the chill dawn of reality. For with Spain in flames and the rest of Europe an armed camp, the ideals for which America fought have been dashed to the ground, and the question in men's minds is not of celebration of conquest, but of keeping out of another catastrophe...
...worthless without the proper, modern equipment to practice it with. He lays this grievous oversight to the American people and their lack of what he calls sense of preparedness. Just what does he mean by that? Of what great danger must we beware that we must become an armed camp? These generalities often quoted by militarists have no meaning whatsoever. Mr. Bertsch says, "We aren't practicing because we haven't the right equipment". It amounts to this, "we aren't succeeding in getting the country keyed up to a violent state of militarism, because there are enough sensible people...
Critics found many a flaw last week in It Can't Happen Here as a piece of dramaturgy. Despite its faults, it is a serviceable and occasionally terrifying presentation of Sinclair Lewis' thesis that the rubber-truncheon and concentration-camp sort of Fascism is a creeping disease and not a sudden explosion. Called to a Manhattan stage for a speech after last week's first performance, Author Lewis appeared, looked at his watch, barked: "I've been making a speech since seven minutes to nine," and vanished into the wings...