Word: fronting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rain, sleet, snow fell on the Western Front. Rivers rose two feet higher. Mud deepened. Despite continued German troop concentrations and systematic artillery fire, consensus of military observers was increasingly against any Big Push by land this winter...
Upon the British sector of the Western Front in France last week arrived Sir Philip Gibbs, K. B. E., a lifelong literary practitioner whose dispatches from the Allied fronts of 1914-18 constitute one of the classic chronicles of World War I. At 62, Sir Philip felt "like Rip Van Winkle coming back to the scenes of his youth," which hadn't changed much. "Has it been seven days' leave or 21 years?" he asked himself. "It is the same old scene, exactly as it has lived in my memory as a kind of dream...
Cooper. Into action on the U. S. front went Alfred Duff Cooper, the Conservative statesman who last year resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty in protest to Prime Minister Chamberlain's "surrender" at Munich. He arrived in Manhattan with his beauteous actress wife, the former Lady Diana Manners, to tour the land and deliver 40 lectures (for a "very substantial fee," his agent said...
...weeks Broadway has had a dazed look in its eyes, a toothy grin on its face, and its itching fingers crossed. For, week by week, the line in front of its box offices grew longer and longer. Broadway was frightened to look for reasons, for fear of jinxing itself. But plausible reasons there were...
Just then somebody in the audience sneezed. "That's it!" Barrymore called to the man down front-"Thank...