Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This incident proved nothing positive about War II's air superiority, or even the whereabouts of Willy Messerschmitt. But both those subjects remained key factors in the war, and last week the New York Times's No. 1 war writer, Hanson Weight-man Baldwin, played down a major...
Frontier Incident. This editorial was strongly reminiscent of a similar one directed at Poland's rulers and printed 48 hours before the Red Army marched into Eastern Poland in September. Reports from the Finnish-Russian frontier the next day were timed to give it further significance.
Declaring that the border incident was a "provocational shelling," Comrade Molotov asserted that the "concentration of Finnish troops near Leningrad not only creates a menace to Leningrad, but is, in fact, a hostile act against the U.S.S.R. . .. Therefore, the Soviet Government.. . proposes that the Government of Finland withdraw its...
"Well, he has taken her to a beach club. ... It is a place where kept women go. There are no respectable girls down there. . . . Then, we had another little unfortunate incident. Would you like to hear it?"
Moment in Peking, Lin Yutang's first novel, is modeled exactly on traditional Chinese novels. Almost 100 characters crowd its 815 close-print pages; it is written with almost Basic English simplicity. Crammed with incident, but plotless, Moment in Peking chronicles the history of three wealthy middle-class Chinese...