Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British planes sold to Madrid, the British ships running guns to Spanish Reds, and the British fighting with the Red Militia, as well as the open encouragement to Spanish radicals given by such British members of Parliament as Laborite William Dobbie. This belaboring of Comrade Cahan in such fashion as to swish Lord Plymouth, Signor Grandi left off to shout: "The Spanish Government's charges are fantastic and devoid of any foundation whatsoever! I refuse to transmit them to Rome." Chimed Prince von Bismarck, "I refuse to transmit them to Berlin!" At this exciting moment of Conference deadlock, correspondents...
...perpetuate the victory of 1918 through the moribund League with its security and defense for the victors, and by these means have attempted to freeze the status quo, with disastrous results. Time is slowly proving to a reluctant Europe that the "status quo" can not be embalmed in such fashion, and that an uneven balance of power can never be maintained through multi-lateral pacts, unless war be used as an international black-jack to oppress the weaker nation. Belgium, realizing that too close an alignment with France may draw her into war with countries with which...
...good to me, for he has given me five children. They came into the world each one with a nature and with characteristics different from their brothers and sisters. I have tried my utmost to understand those differences and to deal with each one of my children in a fashion appropriate to his or her nature; to give support where support has seemed to me to be needed, and in each to cultivate natural gifts and good qualities. I have sought, too, to encourage them at all times to be tolerant of each other. I love them all most dearly...
...Schuschnigg's candidate to succeed Starhemberg. Locals of the Vienna Heimwehr, however, mutinously announced with a 17-to-4 vote that they still supported Fey, and the split in this private army widened rapidly. Cynical Austrians thought last week that Mussolini would now apportion his largesse in such fashion as to close the breach. Meanwhile Il Duce was more concerned with Austria's public army than with her private army, encouraged the Viennese Government to flout the Treaty of St. Germain by last week calling 8,000 21-year-old youths to compulsory military service...
...significant facts, emphasizing irrelevant ones, most detective story writers employ the description of clues as a means of leading a reader astray. Last week an ingenious new type of detective fiction appeared. Honestly and simply, it presents the reader with all the clues in the order and in the fashion that the police uncover them, lets him form his own conclusions about the crime. File on Bolitho Blane is a collection of various objects found at the scene of a murder, together with telegrams, memoranda, stenographic reports of interviews with suspects, bound together in a bulky loose-leaf binding. First...