Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well it might. Mrs. Watriss' precautions frustrated the photographers of every paper in town except one. The irrepressible Daily News came out with the whole business- Brenda greeting Elsa Maxwell, Brenda & mother greeting billowy Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, even Brenda being kissed by an unknown youth-all over the front page and across a centre spread...
...some respects the Battle for Cata lonia was the greatest military engagement since the World War. Although the number of soldiers was far less than that on the Western front in 1914-18, the Rebel concentration of artillery was as great as that used by the Germans at Verdun- about one cannon to every ten yards. In the northern sector of the offensive, near Balaguer. Generalissimo Franco's troops pounded the enemy with a fierce artillery barrage, then bombarded the Loyalists from the air, then attacked with from 100 to 150 tanks. Finally his infantry moved...
...French border, was carried out by Aragonese troops commanded by General José Moscardó. The most unusual feature of the offensive, however, was that for the first time since the rout of Italian troops at Guadalajara in March 1937. unmixed divisions of Italian "legionnaires" were again in the front lines, south of Lérida...
Fortnight ago former Premier Wang Ching-wei, prominent Nationalist Party leader and member of China's United Resistance Front, suddenly flew from Chungking, the temporary capital, to Hanoi, capital of French Indo-China. From there, it was reported last week, he sent a telegram to Generalissimo Chiang declaring that Japanese "proposals" of late December (which, if accepted, would have made China a Japanese puppet state) constituted a "fair" basis for peace discussion...
...Government of Neville Chamberlain is proud of the way its diplomats did their jobs during the trying month of September 1938. Most notable group to be singled out on the King's New Year's honors list last week were men who commanded Britain's diplomatic front-line trenches from Berchtesgaden to Munich...