Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with leaflets. But as usual the copy was inexact: not following British restraint, the Japanese simultaneously bombed with bombs, horribly, killing 400 and wounding 400 in Lu-chow, a city without medical supplies. In Shanghai the Japanese military moved towards a showdown with foreigners. U. S., British, French and Italian defense-force commanders were called together and told that international defense of the International Settlement ought to give way to Japanese defense-of what would then no longer be an International Settlement. But lest this be construed as a tug at Uncle Sam's goatee, Japan meanwhile continued...
...battles within six weeks after hostilities began. In the last World War they tried and failed-but only after the retreat from Paris did the War settle down to one of position and exhaustion. This time Brauchitsch had previous German experience to rely on, plus the theories of the Italian Giuseppe Douhet, plus a new kind of cavalry: airplanes, fast tanks and infantry transported in armored trucks...
Marriage revealed. Isa Miranda (real name: Ines Sampietro), 25, blonde Italian cinema charmer, favored by Mussolini; and Alfredo Guarini, 38, her business manager and adviser; on July 1, in Tucson, Ariz...
Dominic Mussolini, 57, unemployed steel worker, second cousin of the Italian dictator, with whom he used to play as a child, became a U. S. citizen in Warren, Ohio. Anton Lang Jr., professor of German at Georgetown University, son of the late Cristus of the Oberammergau Passion Play, filed a petition for U. S. citizenship in Washington...
...preserve peace, Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria Hotel forbade war talk among its employes, who are chiefly French (in the kitchen), Italian (mixed with French in the dining room), German (in room service...