Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less anxious for the treaty to come into force is Dictator Mussolini. With a considerably curtailed wheat crop, with Fascist finances in none-too-good shape, Italy is impatient for the day when she can receive a British loan. So in Rome last week British Ambassador Lord Perth and Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, Dictator Mussolini's son-in-law, got together. Lord Perth suggested that the Italian Government use its "discreet influence" with Generalissimo Franco to stop the bombings. Realizing that continued attacks might cause his good English friend to lose his job, Italy's dictator decided...
...accuracy of Mr. Sandys' information. Thereupon Sandys drew up a formal question to be asked in the House, as a courtesy submitted the question and his information to the little War Secretary in advance. Shocked was Mr. Hore-Belisha to find that the "information" had come from a secret document drawn up by a top-rank Air officer, which contained emergency directions showing the exact number and positions of guns during the critical German-Austrian Anschluss weekend. Since M. P.s are not allowed to hold active commissions in the regular armed forces, most of them depend on private "leaks...
...years some of the world's most lurid, blood-curdling "true-story" prison tales have come out of experiences, real and embellished, gained in France's famed penal colony in French Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America. Horror stories deluxe have told of men working stark naked in the sizzling tropical jungle, of lust, greed, murder, homosexuality in prison cages crammed with killers, rapists, thieves. Other tales have told of years of maddening isolation in "bear pits" on one of the three Iles du Salut (variously translated as "Safety Isles" and "Isles of Salvation...
...enjoyed a regular escape season in late spring, when winds and sea are favorable. After being provided with clothing and temporary shelter and food to last 21 days, the convicts are taken 12 miles out to sea, are sent on with a "Good luck, but don't come back...
Great question was: Did this resounding upturn of the markets mean that the turn had come in Depression II? Last week Secretary of Commerce Roper was not slow to declare that it had, that business would revive in the fall. Colonel Leonard P. Ayres speedily agreed. All over the U. S. lesser seers chimed...