Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expeditionary force to Spain may become "requisite." For centuries it has been London's basic policy that Britain must oppose whichever power on the Continent is strongest, lest it overwhelm her in the end. Today an important Cabinet faction close to Squire Baldwin holds that "the strongest European power" is now not any one country but the international Socialist-Communist forces of the "Popular Front" which have taken both France and Spain by ballot and are trying in a dozen countries for more sweeping victories. Britons knew what to think last week when, although there has been no battle...
...billed above her, Simone Simon is the star of this picture. Producer Darryl Zanuck designed it expressly to provide a vehicle for her U. S. debut, and Screenwriter Gene Markey and Director Irving Cummings have intelligently fitted the material to her talents. As Marie Claudel, an undergraduate in a European seminary, she loves Stephen Dominik (Herbert Marshall), the head of the school. When a romantic, unsigned letter in her handwriting, addressed "My One and Only Love . . ." is fished out of a classroom wastebasket by an invidious and sex-starved school mistress (Constance Collier), the child is suspected of an outside...
...international audiences who enjoyed its competent performances of plays and operas with German and Viennese casts, its remote picturesqueness, its calm. By last week, when it was in the midst of another summer season, noisy Salzburg had become definitely the place to go for thousands of U. S. and European tourists of high & low degree...
...Football Federation ordered the game replayed. When the Peruvian team failed to appear, the game was awarded to Austria by default. Peru's whole Olympic team of 50 promptly decided to quit the Games. Said Michael Dasso of the Peruvian Olympic Committee: "We've no faith in European athletics. We have come here and found a bunch of merchants...
...once a lucid narrative of ideas, a brilliant account of the lives of some 50 writers and painters, a poetic evocation of post- Revolutionary Boston, an almost reverential tribute to the genius of Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau. It begins in 1815, when U. S. writers were largely dominated by European standards of taste and when there was virtually no U. S. art; it ends in 1865 when the Civil War had already put an end to the quiet way of life that gave rise to New England culture. In these 50 years the greatest literature that the U. S. can claim...