Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baron Beaverbrook, most powerful press tycoon of Fleet Street, arrived in Manhattan on the Bremen last week to face reporters eager to get at the bottom of why his Daily Express and other London papers have not printed the Mrs. Simpson story. "You are the censor!" cried a reporter. Replied Lord Beaverbrook...
...assert themselves in the face of such reverses, the Radical authorities last week executed at Valencia the No. 1 Spanish Fascist, Don Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Marques d'Estella, son of the late Spanish Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera. Meanwhile, fighting at Madrid, the No. 1 Spanish Anarchist, famed General Buenaventura Durruti, was killed...
...England eagerly seizes the extended yellow hand [of Japan] and cultivates an alliance which, from the racial point of view, is perhaps indefensible but whieh viewed from the national-political angle, offers the sole possibility of strengthening Britain's world position in the face of the ever more powerful American continent...
...Jews are like maggots in a decaying body. The black-haired Jew with satanic joy in his face is ever lying in wait for some innocent Aryan girl. . . . No folk can remove this [Jewish] fist from its gullet except by the sword. Only the gathered, concentrated strength of a powerfully rising national passion is able to oppose the international enslavement of peoples. Such a procedure is, however, and remains, a bloody...
...artists. Metropolitan Opera veterans still chuckle over the horse that ate Hagen's beard years ago in Gotterdammerung, the slap Geraldine Farrar gave Caruso in Carmen, the hot potato he mischievously pressed into Nordica's hand. Playing Tosca in Vienna before the War, Jeritza fell on her face, coolly sang the tender aria Vissi d'arte prone. Margaret Anglin once stalked out onto the Carnegie Hall stage to declaim Electra's grief, was appalled to find a cat peering out of her flowing Greek gown. Once when Mischa Levitzki was performing in Carnegie Hall, a mouse...