Word: maginot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faced by war with France, and for 20 years stood, often alone, against a power that became mighty under Napoleon. The parallels between that time and the present are not neglected by Mr. Adams. Napoleon was blocked at the English Channel as Hitler is blocked at the Maginot line, and Napoleon forced Spain into the war to get a base for invading England. The French and Spanish fleets then feinted an attack on the West Indies to draw Nelson's fleet from the Channel. That this elaborate trick did not succeed was Nelson's glory: he guessed...
...French Talking Films Committee presents today at 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, and 9 o'clock in the Geographical Institute "Double Crime Sur La Ligne Maginot" and a French Movietone newsreel of "Le Quatorze Juillet...
...Double Crime sur la Ligne Maginot" will be the title of the film to be presented by the French Talking Flims Committee next Thursday and Friday at the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
...going down in defeat, and still say that the booming of the guns is the death rattle, not of civilization, but of the forces of evil. He is a brain specialist, and he sees that the ultimate defenses of civilization are not the pill-boxes of the Mannerheim and Maginot Lines, but the tissues of the human brain, and he thinks they are still in good order, even though they are taking a terrific battering in these times. Mr. Sherwood is distinctly uneasy when he looks at the part America is playing in this cellular shell-fire, but he doesn...
Married. Comedienne Grade Fields, 42, "darling of the Maginot Line"; and Monty Banks, 42, onetime silent cinema comedian, now producerdirector; both for the second time; after a flight from reporters who spotted them when they applied for a marriage license under their real names, Grace Stansfield and Mario Bianchi; in Beverly Hills, Calif...