Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...servants with revolver butts, ravished his desk, scattered his papers, turned his house inside out. Police astutely concluded that they had been searching for embarrassing evidence of recent burnings, beatings, bombings-evidence on the strength of which Sir Dawson might feel inclined once more to make use of the Civil Authorities...
...year after the opening of Spam's bloody, but undermanned civil war, neither Leftists nor Rightists lack able staff officers. What both sides do need is enough troops for effective action on five separate fronts that snake for nearly 1,200 miles down the midriff of Spain. For some months military observers on both sides have cynically propounded a convenient rule: they will concede definite military superiority to whichever side is able to maintain an offensive for three successive days...
...take place. The donor of that ground was Luke Wilson Sr., 65, philanthropic heir of Chicago's Wilson Bros, (haberdashery manufacturers), part owner (through his wife) of Washington's Woodward & Lothrop department store, great & good friend of Surgeon General Parran, of Senator Robert La Follette (for whose Civil Liberties Committee Luke Wilson Jr. is an investigator), of Secretary Roper. On July 19 Donor Wilson died, of cancer...
...right to be called the most official of unofficial Russian novelists. The tale of a peasant boy who rises to the rank of a Red Army commander, One Life, One Kopeck is a fast-moving, dramatic, frankly sympathetic novel which compares well with the best examples of Russian Civil War drama released through the Soviet movie trust Amkino, is partly told in a Russian equivalent of the Irish sure-and-begorra vein of humor, partly in the vein of Duranty's best news dispatches...
...adventures are placed against the background of the War and Revolution-a chronicle which carries Ivan luckily through the slaughter of the Russians on the Polish front, many a hazardous undertaking of the Communist Party, a turbulent love life, closes during the last days of the Russian Civil War, when Ivan made a fatal error of judgment because he forgot momentarily that "in revolution there is no place for sentiment or sorrow or heart hollowness-no place at all for love...