Word: diversionism
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The long overdue, widely advertised, win-the-war offensive of Generalissimo Francisco Franco began at dawn one clear, cold day last week in western Catalonia. Hardest fighting took place in the mountainous section near Tremp, where snow was so deep that communications bogged and the temperature was so low that...
This new diversion for long winter evenings first cropped up in Lowell House where it is now rapidly replacing all other House sports. In principle it is simple. If the contestants feel like good sports they divide into two teams, one of which defends the fireplace against the efforts of...
When a convention delegate offered a Roosevelt-Third-Term resolution˜such as has become routine at conventions of C. I. O. affiliates˜Chairman Lewis squelched him. Thus Mr. Lewis had left wide open the question of C. I. O. al legiance in 1940. The convention then went on...
Adapted from I. A. R. Wylie's Saturday Evening Post serial, The Gay Banditti, The Young in Heart never permits its audience much doubt about how the lion & lamb relationship of its major characters will eventually resolve itself. However, if it has often been told before, the story has...
The partnership of these two strong men is a big story of U. S. journalism. Scott was a big, brusque, walrus-faced fighter, who read Horace for diversion and stepped up to bars in a long frock coat and high silk hat to call for a shot of straight whiskey...