Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the World War no correspondent would have dreamed of handing to a French or German censor a dispatch containing such obvious dynamite, however correct, and the placid Chinese censor as a matter of fact indulged Chicago's Daily News to the extent of passing this: "Only one thing can save the Chinese Army now, this correspondent learns-continued torrential rains for three days." What made all this timely last week was that Japanese forces were at the moment approaching the great Shantung city of Tsingtao and in it Chinese looters, firebugs, panic-stricken soldiers and gangsters were creating...
Above other British news last week towered the fact that King George and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had finally done something handsome about "Van." In the Empire's tight little ruling caste no great figure is more generally admired and heeded than Sir Robert Gilbert...
...roused. The 'unhappy ending,' the sole criterion of art when the Dial still lived, is a commonplace in the slicks but genuine tragedy would be as out of place there as a chorus from 'Antigone' interpolated between innings at a baseball game. . . . That fact, not the timidity or hypocrisy of editors, determines the nature of magazine fiction...
...Worth noting is the fact that while the Post runs many stage and screen articles, that great entertainment medium the radio is almost never featured...
...unfounded impression that Ravel was a hairy-chested radical persisted among conservative French critics for years, despite the fact that his music was the last word in elegance and refinement. Unprolific and self-restricted to the smaller forms of composition (he never wrote a symphony), Ravel managed a fairly steady output of clean-cut, impeccably styled works which was interrupted only by the outbreak of the War. Frail, diminutive Ravel served as an ambulance driver; later his health collapsed under the strain. After the War he bought himself a secluded villa in the country outside Paris, where he spent most...