Word: heroes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warsaw and the rest of Poland solemnly commemorated the fourth anniversary of the death of Marshal Josef Pilsudski, Polish hero and dictator, but not Danzig. There the Nazi Senate prohibited any ceremonies on the ground that in the present tension they could not guarantee order. Polish retort was that since the Germans could not keep order, the Polish Army should move in and do it. When a Polish bookshop proprietor displayed the old Marshal's picture his windows were smashed. Nazi police conveniently arrived too late to arrest the vandals...
...some beautiful Technicolor which almost succeeds in capturing the sweep of the Kansas plains. It may have Errol Flynn, whose drawing-room polish didn't come from western saddle soap. But it is still a horse-opera. It has the spirit of the old western epic, with the invincible hero who single-handed oan send packing every bad man in town, with beautiful bar-room wenches, and with more gun-fights than horses. And this should be enough for anyone...
Meanwhile, signs that Herr Hitler was not altogether satisfied with his dependency were accumulating. Although Slovak officials hailed the Fuhrer as the "noble-minded peace hero of all humanity," last week crowds in Bratislava gathered to shout "Down with Germany" and to show their sympathy for Nazi-troubled Poland, Numerous anti-German slogans appeared on walls. Many Slovaks were arrested...
Last week Hero Wilson Burgess had the most satisfying reward any radio ham hopes for: selection by his fellows of The American Radio Relay League as tops for the year and the annual William S. Paley Amateur Radio Award for contributing most usefully to the American people in 1938 through amateur radio. When photographers went around to take his picture, Ham Burgess squirmed diffidently, said: "Golly, I feel like Clark Gable...
...will cut down his phenomenal feminine following. Slushed Louella ("Lolly") Parsons in her Hearst column last fortnight: "Frankly, and if I can judge by the batch of letters that have come to this desk recently, the youngsters are brokenhearted (at least for the moment) over the marriage of their hero, Ty Power. Mildred and Harold Lloyd told me their two daughters practically went into a decline when they heard...