Word: fortresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Anthony Eden continued his rest cure in the country last week, his Parliamentary Undersecretary Lord Cranborne added to Britain's nervous tension by confirming reports in the House of Commons that the island of Helgoland, Germany's famed pre-War fortress in the North Sea, was being secretly fortified by the Nazi Government...
...Charles Holmes's thoughts turned to "Hen Opp,'" who had helped finance the Underground, was called "Father of the London Subway." In his memoirs published fortnight ago* Sir Charles recalled how "Hen Opp" quickly arranged to store in "the unused station in the Strand . . . a perfect subterranean fortress . . . some 900 of our best pictures, with selected works from great private collections." Generous to the last in loaning drawings from his own collection, "Hen Opp" died in 1932. Proceeds of last week's sale, occasioned by the death of Oppenheimer's widow, are estimated to be twice...
Background rather than theme, incidents rather than story, are the memorable notes in Education Before Verdun. As in Sergeant Grischa, the War is not the subject but the setting-with the difference that here the setting overlooms the human figures struggling in brief silhouet before its curtain. Fortress-girt Verdun, innermost circle of the Western Front's hell; where in 1916 the French and Germans each lost 350,000 men; where, between February and July, 23 million shells punctuated the deadlocked argument; Douaumont, captured and recaptured but each time by an accident, the death trap where an explosion wiped...
...Philadelphia last week Digger Bache and Director Ephraim A. Speiser of the American School of Oriental Research announced the discovery, between Levels Eleven and Twelve, of a temple-fortress built 3,000 years before the earliest mention of such structures in the Old Testament, and which they called "unique in prehistory." The building was circular and its walls, of sun-dried brick, were more than a yard thick. Twelve rooms were laid out around the circle, and across it were three rectangular rooms in series. The diggers believed that the largest was a cult-room and that a small anteroom...
...satire to the run of rollicking fun. In "The Ghost Goes West," Robert Donat, last of the clan of Glourie, is forced to sell his ancestral castle at the moment Jean Parker happens along. He persuades her father (Eugene Pallette) a multimillionaire chain store tycoon, to buy the fortress and transplant it to the bonny banks of Florida. But unfortunately, a jolly philandering Glourie disgraced himself two centuries before, and was doomed to haunt the castle to take revenge on the enemy, clan MacLaggan. With Donat the man and Donat the ghost both of an amorous turn, poor Jean...