Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This incident, which is supposed to have happened early in the days of Il Duce's power, might easily have taken place again last week. Once more the Dictator was alone and tired. Italians still salaamed to his face on screens, his name on walls, but there were certain...
Britisher Byron Charles Tate, a member of the Griswold-Harkness Expedition (1934-35) to the East Indies, sued Explorer Lawrence Tarleton Knutsford Griswold for $100,000 for defamation of character because of an incident in Griswold's book, Tombs, Travel and Trouble. Grounds: Tate never attempted to seduce the...
Not denied, but officially confirmed by the Japanese War Office, was a subsequent skirmish on half-Russian, half-Japanese Sakhalin Island. Soviet frontier guards were said to have crossed the border and fired on a band of Japanese policemen. The incident developed into a dogfight in which, the Japanese claimed...
The old Lewis love of extravaganza breaks out occasionally, as in his description of the suite occupied by Andy Deacon, the following winter, at a Park Avenue hotel: "Across the room was a Gothic stone fireplace composed of an entire castle transported from Normandy." Here Andy casts his company for...
Perhaps the author spent all his efforts on Mrs. Rochester, for the part is not only a logical and rounded study, but is beautifully handled by Ethel Barrymore. She is the one unifying force which prevents "International Incident" from becoming a very local incident.