Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which this crew, long on numbers but short on experience, with plenty of horses but not enough trucks and planes, with their share of guts but not too many guns, was undertaking last week was not just a bilateral frip-frap over a port called Danzig and a 50-mile wide carpet to the sea. It was, in the eyes of General Smigly-Rydz, a holy war. It was a war to stop the Devil, A. Hitler, before he put horns, cleft feet and an arrowy tail on every good Catholic in Poland. It was a war in which Providence...
...Pope's ministrations, like those of all strivers for peace, had failed. But in one State they were a factor in the final decision. The Vatican newspaper printed last week an unprecedented report. Cardinal Maglione had a long, formal talk with an official not accredited to the Church- the private chaplain of Vittorio Emmanuele III, King and Emperor of Italy. Italy stayed...
...done every day for the past 21 years-worked a little on his memoirs, walked a little in his park, chopped a little wood. To Friederick Wilhelm Victor Albert von Hohenzollern, once by the Grace of God Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, 1914 was a long way off. And the years since that morning in 1918 when they had hustled him out of Germany had been quiet years. No longer did people hate him. No longer did people want to see him hung. And no longer was there noise of guns over Europe...
...tanks, the accuracy of aerial bombing, the range and speed of airplanes. Yet the most effective innovation of the Spanish civil war was a crude anti-tank weapon- bottles of gasoline wrapped in burning rags which were hurled at Insurgent tanks by Loyalist infantry. And the record for long-distance artillery fire is still held by the monster guns with which, during World War I, the Germans shelled Paris from a wood 70-odd miles away...
...Associated Actors & Artistes of America). Between them, white-collar A. A. A. A. and no-collar I. A. T. S. E. are in a position to start such a strike as the U. S. entertainment industry has never experienced, and all summer it has been touch-&-go whether their long-simmering jurisdictional disputes could be settled without war. Last week came the crisis all showfolk have been dreading...