Word: fortresses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...down the street in his cutaway and high hat-nonchalantly as became a diplomat. He proceeded straight to the door of the Presidential Palace where, as he arrived, a band on the terrace played "The Star Spangled Banner" and "El himno bayames." Marching inside while the guns of Cabanas Fortress across the bay boomed a 21-gun salute, he received profuse protestations of pleasure from President Carlos Mendieta y Montefur. There was bravery in Ambassador Caffery's walk from the Embassy because he had no certainty that he would reach the palace alive...
...Black Cat (Universal), "suggested" by Edgar Allan Poe's famed story of a murderer's retribution, takes place in a sleek modernistic house built by a demented Austrian (Boris Karloff) on the remains of a World War fortress. A bus accident one stormy night sends into this evil abode a U. S. detective story writer, his bride, and a jittery psychiatrist (Bela Lugosi) who suspects that years ago Karloff stole his wife and daughter. Lugosi's suspicions are confirmed when Karloff shows him his waxy-looking spouse among a collection of prettily embalmed women in the cellar...
Four pages, battering with the ineffectiveness of pop pistols against the stury fortress of Namur, represent the hysterical attempt of our brethren to shake off the "irons of serfdom". Using for a criterion the old Harvard Herald which subsided into silence in 1883, the prevailing tone of the issue represents not only the spirit of a by-gone era but also the general effect of a much used trick...
...Greece. Three of the largest are of current political interest. Far west, due south of Italian Sicily is the Island of Malta which revolted against Napoleon in 1798 and was voluntarily annexed to Britain by the Treaty of Paris (1814). Here the Knights of Malta established a hospital, a fortress, and the medieval forerunner of the Red Cross after the Crusades. Here the British Government has had much trouble in recent years with a population largely Italian and predominantly Roman Catholic. (TIME...
...Sarte, organizer of the famed Camelots du Roi: "Perhaps you do not realize to what extremes of dislike you have reached. The Chamber of Deputies is for the country something that resembles what the Bastille used to be. Your privileges and your immunities represent for the country a fortress that it would like to see demolished. . . . The Royalists should arm for defense, because at present there is no talk of anything but an approaching revolution and the sacking of Paris. I have been told that starting Friday, one will not be able to go out at night without being attacked...