Word: fending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart is four times the size of his brain, and this is probably why the French are able to produce a movie like "Generals Without Buttons," the current attraction at the Fine Arts. For it is hard to imagine Hollywood giving any attention to a story about a fend between two villages, one of which wanted rain for its cabbages, and the other of which wanted sun for its grape vines...
When this fend is carried to the younger generation, the fun really begins. These French youngsters make the Dead End Kids look like a bunch of sissies. They guzzle wine, swear colorfully, completely befuddle their naive schoolmaster, and stage a roaring battle with their bare buttocks billowing in the breeze a clever device to keep their enemies from licking the pants off them. Besides this, they're Latins even in their diapers, and they love magnificently. For a time it seems as if a watery romance between the schoolmarm of one town and the mayor of the other is going...
...China lived on hopes that the white men would fall to fighting each other and leave her alone. They fought in 1914-18 and millions of them were fighting again last week; but still China was the loser. Those white men who had been helping her a little to fend off other yellow men's attacks were now too busy even to do that. By innocence, weakness, timidity, China had got herself in for what promised to be a furious autumn campaign. Last week the campaign began. The theatre: South China. The tactic: a flanking movement...
Having damned "$30 Every Thursday" as a "short cut to Utopia" and "a fantastic financial scheme" only last fortnight, last week President Roosevelt - rather than of fend 800,000 California voters and a likely new "liberal" Senator - gracefully observed that the people of California have a perfect right to try any financial scheme they choose, however unsound...
Britain's individual settlement with the Reich leaves the other Austrian creditor nations to fend for themselves, with little hope of compensation unless they are willing to accept payment in German goods. The U. S., with at least $20,000,000 owed on the Austrian debt, is in no position to drive a settlement since she annually sells $29,280,000 more to Germany than she is forced to buy. So far, Washington has dispatched three notes of protest against Germany's failure to pay. Germany has not troubled to answer...