Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defense Passive. Such general war work as French women have time for, after doing their own, is attended to by thousands of small committees organized in cities and towns, with no coordinating or super-organization. They do a specific job in a specific place, and their general attitude, emphasized by Eve Curie, is "No publicity and no showing off!" In Paris, for example, the war has thrown many musicians and writers out of work. So there is a small committee, Dejeuners de Lettres et de la Musique, one of whose presidents happens to be Mme Lebrun. It serves an ample...
...Honor, Croix de Guerre with two palms and two stars, Müdaille des Epidemics, the U. S. Certificate of Merit. She is now Mrs. T. Bentley Mott, wife of the head of the American Fund for French Wounded, Colonel Mott, onetime liaison officer between Marshal Foch and General Pershing. The whole Biarritz colony, French and foreign, are exceptionally war-work-minded, last week were furiously getting truckloads of warm clothing, cigarets and sweets off to the Maginot Line for Christmas...
Candidates, rounded up by talent scouts, are elected to the All-America on the basis of: 1) the cheering section's reaction; 2) judgment in selecting the best psychological moment for a cheer; 3) acrobatic ability-not only proficiency in the common cartwheels, handstands and general high jinks, but also the Ritter Span, Nelson Arch, Duos...
...Hollywood. It also proved to be Maxwell Anderson's most serious play since Winterset. When Anderson gets really serious, the dilemmas of mankind stiffen their doughty horns, philosophy flaps its aerial wings, Webster's Unabridged donates its longest words, prose ascends to verse, and there is a general intimation that the Almighty is in the throes of mapping out the universe...
Back in August, Tabouis had written: "The Reich Army will join Hungary's General Staff in a common offensive against Rumania." Two weeks later, when Germany invaded Poland, Hungary was neutral. Said Tabouis, two days before Stalin signed a trade agreement with Hitler: "Foreign observers in Berlin learned last night that a basis for agreement has been reached in Moscow by France, England Russia, Poland, Rumania and Turkey...