Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...western boundary is separated from Palestine by 200 miles of British-mandated Trans- Jordan, British officers foresaw that friendly Bedouins would soon be leading Iraq raiders across the desert into Palestine. Meanwhile, in Palestine itself, twelve Arab terrorists replenished their none-too-full coffers by a new type of coup. In a daylight robbery of a branch Barclays Bank at Nablus, they obtained...
...mineral rights from Haile Selassie. In Scoop, poor blundering William Boot is far more fortunate. He falls in love with a German girl, stays in the capital when rival correspondents are sent out to a non-existent front, scoops the world when Communists pull a coup d'etat, are frustrated by a mysterious British financier. Although in parts as funny as anything that Waugh has written, it sounds just a shade too much like wish fulfillment to have the true cold blood of satire...
...since the Nazi coup, the Countess has had only one quiet amusement-chatting with the former Chancellor while he was "honorably detained" in the Belvedere Palace. One of the things they talked about was getting married. They had been thinking about it for some time, but Chancellor Schuschnigg, a devout Roman Catholic, could not marry a divorced woman. Last December, the Vatican came to their aid by annulling the Countess' previous marriage, without stating grounds. But the Church asked the Chancellor not to marry as long as he was in power. With Anschluss, the Nazis opened up the hymenal...
...Independent Theatre Owners Association, who claimed a month ago that her box-office appeal was practically nil. Highly responsive to the cajolings of pudgy, moon-faced Director Cukor, she gives her liveliest performance since appearing in his Little Women-Restoring Cinemactress Hepburn's prestige is not the only coup Columbia will score if Holiday proves a box-office hit for the third time. The company acquired the script for practically nothing, by paying RKO $80,000 for a batch of shelved stories which also turned out to include its current hit, The Awful Truth. As an adapter, Screenwriter Stewart...
Another Austria? Nevertheless, there were alarming indications last week that Chancellor Hitler might decide to duplicate his Austrian coup. Der Angriff reminiscently declared that the Czech government of President Eduard Benes was "no longer master of the situation." This almost directly paralleled the technique that prefaced the occupation of Austria, when Austrian Nazi Chief Seyss-Inquart "invited" the German army to take control because Austria "was no longer master" of its own situation...