Word: hun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eton ever thinks of Eternal Rome with other than profound cultural respect, and Pope Pius XI was probably right in thinking last week that the last place on which British bombs will ever fall is the City of the Caesars. All the same, Kaiser Wilhelm II became a "beastly Hun" for some years to his cousin George V, and Benito Mussolini was rapidly becoming even worse last week to English newspaper readers of whom none is more inveterate than His Majesty. In the catch-phrase of Fleet Street's more blatant organs, "Mussolini is out-Hunning the Huns...
...parting shot, Most-Successful-Cookery-Instructor Kriens gloomed, "English household cooking was better a hun-dred or even 25 years ago than it is today, and it is getting worse...
...eligible for military service within the next thirty years owes it to himself, to his country, and to the shreds and patches of Western civilization to weigh carefully the problems upon which Hector Lazo throws a searchlight in "Taps." The book tells the story of a young, ardent, Hun-damning warrior, who, forced as a Secret Service man to pose as a conscientious objector, is finally persuaded by the force of his own assumed arguments and by the pleading of a wounded friend to become in all seriousness the determined kind of pacifist which he had been impersonating. Hector Lazo...
Lawrenceville is near Princeton and is equalled only by the Hill and Hun Schools in the number of men it sends to the home of the Tiger...
...Therefore, he enlists, and we next see him mingling with a group of neurasthenic aviators over there. Once in the war, Rocky Thorne becomes a cruel killer. He disobeys orders so that he may soar up to the sun and then swoop down on the tall of some unsuspecting Hun. He breaks all records of bringing down enemy planes, and then he goes to pieces after killing a young German aviator who had down over the American camp to bring a note telling that a wounded American aviator was on the way to recovery and in the hands of friendly...