Word: civilian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great Plaza Mayor, filled the intervening space with sand bags. This was to be a refugio against possible air raids. They took their time about it, for in over a year's warfare no Leftist planes had appeared over Salamanca. Leftist authorities had repeatedly promised that civilian centres would never be bombed by their planes. Nonetheless, Salamanca was surrounded by the very latest German anti-aircraft batteries. Last week in Salamanca a frightened shouting mob poured into that refugio as 20 big Leftist bombers circled overhead sending 1,000-lb. bombs whistling down on the yellow stone University City...
Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" in the hands of Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre, has been stripped of its superstitious characters and less significant scenes, act on a huge bare stage with several platforms and an immense vertical rectangle, and had its antique continues changed for grim modern civilian suits and Fascist uniforms. Thereby after the first few moments of apparent incongruity have passed, it is a stark, harrowing picture of mob passion and dictatorship...
...Powers does a splendidly subdued, Brutus, and the painful deliberation that characterizes the here is acted to perfection. Indicative of his disinteredness and his freedom from fanaticism, he is kept in civilian dress, whereas most of the conspirators are in uniform. This is one of the skillful touches of presentation...
...Palace in Tokyo, in a hall adorned with priceless golden screens and Japan's famed wall painting The Thousand Sparrows, the Imperial Council met. His Majesty bolt upright, his generals and admirals in full regalia, his civilian Cabinet in frock coats "Bismarck style," all sat before tables draped with costly old brocade. So much and no more was the authentic news of that fateful meeting that any foreign correspondent in Tokyo was able to obtain. The proceedings were veiled in almost religious secrecy. The event which immediately followed it could not however be concealed...
...missionary professors, Dr. Lewis S. C. Smythe and Dr. Miner Searle Bates of the University of Nanking, helped organize a Nanking safety zone which, although the Japanese merely spared it from concentrated bombardment, probably saved thousands of civilian lives. To this zone went thousands of frantic Chinese soldiers, eager to exchange their uniforms for civilian garb, or even to strip themselves to their underclothing lest the Japanese execute them as soldiers. Upon Rev. John Magee, able Episcopal missionary, lately of Shanghai, fell the job of organizing medical care in Nanking, Chinese army hospitals being completely inadequate. With two missionary doctors...