Word: civile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blow itself, American Airlines started flying next morning. By 9 o'clock every scheduled flight was booked solid. By noon there was a waiting list of 800. Unable to carry more than a small percentage of the demand, even by tripling its service, American Airlines got Civil Aeronautics Authority permission to waive its franchise, then asked other airlines to help out. United Air Lines, Eastern Airlines and Transcontinental & Western Air pitched in. When at week's end railroad grades and highways were got back into shape, other lines retired after the busiest spell of flying U. S. airlines...
PARIS--European statesmen, snatched from the brink of war by the four-power conference at Munich, tonight, were understood to be considering a formula for liquidating the two out- standing irritants of the political horizon--Italy's conquest of Etheopia and the Spanish Civil...
...years before the Civil War no one knew which way the Border States would go if war came. They vacillated, compromised, stood on one political foot and then the other, kept the country on pins and needles till the last moment. The literary inheritors of this Border-State vacillation are the Southern regionalists: Poets Allen Tate. John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson. Novelists Caroline Gordon (Mrs. Allen Tate). John Peale Bishop, et al., from the divided States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia. Subtle, urbane and inexhaustibly energetic, they straddle the question of the South's inevitable industrialization, preach a Southern culture...
...subtler than Poet Allen Tate, who has written biographies (Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis), contributed to regional anthologies,, made himself their best-known spokesman. The Fathers, his first novel, exhibits Border-State mentality at its most devious. The story, laid in Virginia and Maryland during the first days of the Civil War, is recalled 50 years later by an old bachelor doctor named Lacy Buchan. The protagonist, however, is the narrator's brother-in-law, a handsome, money-making Marylander named George Posey, whom the narrator worshiped but only vaguely understood. The elder Buchans, Jeffersonian aristocrats, understand Posey even less...
...Class of 1742, a century later, had only 24 graduates. Its most famous member was Samuel Auchmuty, a noted colonial lawyer and judge, who later received honorary degrees from Columbia and Oxford. Jumping another century, the Class of 1842 graduated 56 strong. This class lost several men in the Civil War. The best-known member was Stephen H. Phillips, who became foreign Minister of the old Kingdom of Hawaii...