Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Husband's Holiday" is a re-simmering of the free-soul theme in a middle-class milieu. Living in sin has seldom been more pedestrian. Miss Vivienne Osborne permits her husband, Mr. Clive Brook, to conduct his extra-martial affair with Miss Juliette Compton, knowing that he'll come home just as surely as Little Bo-Peep. There is little for the erring husband to choose between the two women, and Mr, Brook takes no great pleasure in either. Neither does the Playgoer. Best scene: Mr. Brook playing with the children's toy tracks...
Conviction of second degree murder in Hawaii calls for a maximum penalty of life imprisonment at hard labor. Under a gentleman's agreement all noncapital offenses involving Naval personnel in Hawaii are tried by court martial. Rear Admiral Stirling advised the Navy Department that "undoubtedly" the grand jury's action was taken under the belief that the defendants, including Mrs. Fortescue, would ultimately come to the Navy, not to the civil courts, for justice. Meantime, the prisoners were released from the U. S. S. Alton at Pearl Harbor, put on probation under bail which...
...were coming, the budget was unbalanced, the yen was falling, Government bonds were off. But about such things few subjects of the Emperor cared when Japanese arms were carving out world headlines in Shanghai, Nanking, Harbin. Flags fluttered from every Tokyo home. Troops drilled in every barracks. Full of martial memories, reservists tramped back and forth to business, pretending their umbrellas were guns. Proud Japanese fathers lectured their sons on the honor of dying for Nippon...
...Ming dynasty, sounded its strident alarm and refugees from Shanghai piled into British steamers, anxious to get back as quickly as they could. Also at Nanking was the U. S. destroyer Simpson. As the first shells screamed over the city the Simpson hustled out of the way. At Shanghai martial law was declared; U. S. Marines put up loft. barbed wire fences across side streets, planted machine guns. Into the harbor came Japan's two other airplane carriers. Into the harbor came also four U. S. destroyers from Manila (see p. 9). Reports of the Nanking bombing, traced...
Within two days General Martinez was in control of the situation. With martial law enforced in eight provinces, the revolutionists had dwindled to a few scattered bands, hotly pursued. In San Salvador 300 young blades roamed the streets with carte blanche from the government to shoot every Communist at sight...