Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty and set up a Fascist state with himself as Führer and Adolf Hitler as an ally, Leader Codreanu was found guilty, sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Balkan justice being what it is, Leader Codreanu was considered to have got off lightly. In the complex fabric of Balkan politics, however, the sentence did mean that King Carol was taking no nonsense from Nazis or Nazi friends...
...Britain, descendant of the 14th-Century Scottish King Robert III, possessor of 14 titles-was disposing of half of Cardiff's real estate to an unidentified London syndicate. Reported to involve from $100,000,000 down to $25,000,000 it was believed to be the most complex real-estate deal ever to take place in Britain...
...board of health last fortnight discovered a pair of starving, premature twins, a boy and a girl who did not look alike. While hospital nurses washed and fed them, health officers last week tried to get their mother, a woman of 36, two years a widow, to clarify a complex situation. She had already had twelve children. Eight of those, ranging from 18 to two years of age, were living. She could not tell whether the father of her latest pair was one Luis Ersing, 24. or one Lanzarin Timoteo, 26, both jobless Spaniards. Luis' mother had been minding...
...vote was only the first step of a procedure which may take six months to work out under the complex machinery provided by the Railway Labor Act. And the unions might still strike when this arbitration period ended. Said Railway Labor's spokesman, Chairman George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association last week: "Wage cuts are out of the question...
...Jezebel," which brought Bette Davis to the screen of the University yesterday, is one of those rare pictures which combine genuine acting with setting and photography worthy of it. Miss Davis is again called upon to play a complex, not wholly agreeable, personality, and again she responds with a sensitive, understanding portrayal. Although the supporting cast, particularly George Brent, are especially fine, Miss Davis captures attention throughout; leaving, one can think only of Jezebel and the curious psychological trait that made her do evil almost against her will, and injure those she loved...