Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grip. But the only explanation for the badly panicked thousands-who evidently had neither given themselves the pleasure of familiarizing themselves with Wells's famous book nor had the wit to confirm or deny the catastrophe by dialing another station-is that recent concern over a possible European Armageddon has badly spooked the U. S. public...
Lumping American with European culture as "Euro-American", Professor Sorokin set the World War as a tentative starting point for an era of change that may take a century...
...event of a European war, said Mr. de Valera to a representative of the London Evening Standard, "no Irish leader will ever be able to get the Irish people to cooperate with Britain while partition [of Ulster from Eire] remains, I would not attempt it myself. The present partition of Ireland is a dangerous anachronism which must be ended...
...little town of Melrose, Mass. In Manhattan, where she went to study, she was offered a chance to sing small parts at the Metropolitan. But Soprano Farrar wanted a big chance; she refused, went to Europe to continue her studies. At 19 she was already an admired figure in European opera. At the Metropolitan, when she returned famous, she rubbed arias for 16 consecutive seasons with such famed songsters as the late Enrico Caruso and Antonio Scotti, she sang some 29 roles, played the most famous of them, Madame Butterfly, nearly 100 times in Manhattan alone...
...station then gets through for a spot news broadcast from an old European border town. The announcer is stationed on a tenement roof and as he waits and fears for the enemy planes to come over, his microphone picks up the incongruous, commonplace sounds and voices of women chattering, of children playing. The 1930s have brought war to the kitchen, casualties to the bedroom floor. Air Raid reflects this horror unforgettably. Sounding like the voice in a newsreel from Madrid, Barcelona, Shanghai, Nanking, Poet Mac-Leish's tensed announcer fills in the waiting time by remarking...