Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to extend our thanks to the Harvard students that are so generously aiding us in the fight by giving us clothes...
...main force of the White Army under General Jose Varela was fighting on the bank of the Manzanares River which flows through Madrid's western and southwestern sections. Day after day the besiegers tried in vain to thrust across three of the river's bridges and battle their way into the city. Under a blanket of acrid smoke, White shock troops violently attacked Los Franceses Bridge, failed to enter Madrid only because the Red militia blew up the bridge and captured three White tanks that had wormed their way across the river into the Radical lines...
...egoist like his fellow reporter-biographers, Mr. Miller likes to go on solitary two-day hikes "as a useful mental astringent," still has to give himself a fight-talk to ward off journalistic stage fright before interviewing famed figures. Less blatant in his self-revelations than Negley Farson, he shows less literary skill than Walter Duranty, less philosophical originality than Vincent Sheean. He gropes for "some system ... of bringing the capacities of production and the requirements of consumption together so that the whole world can enjoy the advantages made available by the machine." That this solution will be realized...
...LIFE OF GEORGE MOORE-Joseph Hone-Macmillan ($3). First full-length biography of the Irish novelist, interesting for its disclosure of more paradoxes in George Moore's own life than he himself invented. Waging a bitter, successful fight against the English censorship on Zola's books, he discredited a similar campaign on behalf of Joyce and D. H. Lawrence. A reckless spender in the Paris days of the Confessions of a Young Man he carefully saved his own earnings while pretending to be at the gates of the poorhouse, left an estate of ?68,000 which he deposited...
...satire, defamation, and downright libel. There were statutes forbidding the publication of criticism of the minister's policy, but the speed laws of today could scarcely be less effective for their purpose than were they for theirs. Since they could not suppress it, ministers were obliged to enter the fight. Political scribbling, though loudly despised as a prostituted trade, became almost respectable when great men set up their own journals to solicit the popular voice. Readers in the coffee-houses in 1723 may well have marveled to find Bishop Hoadly in "The London Journal" and the Duko of Wharton...