Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Valencia last week the six-month-old Government of greying, pugnacious Premier Francisco Largo Caballero fell. In the midst of the political crisis a flight of Rightist warplanes swept in from the open Mediterranean raining light bombs. They wrecked a streetcar, smashed windows, killed the cook and wounded the doorman of the British Embassy...
...least, bold gestures by the southern master of the new Axis: 1) Italy's war games will be held this year not on the Austrian front as usual but in Sicily, one of the island bases from which Italy would operate if she were out to control the Mediterranean; 2) Italy's new warboats, provided in the big new "defense" budget, will be designed to make Italy's fleet capable of operating beyond the Mediterranean, on the high seas which England now dominates...
...arrival was not a bad cordial people reflecting in may ways the character of their surroundings. I suppose our learned psychologists think more of glands than geography, but here is a people living on this lovely mountain slope, snow-rimmed Mt. Etna clear in the distance, the Mediterranean below; oranges, almonds, lemons and flowers of every variety growing in abundance--and nothing much more important to do but work their donkeys, have babies, and cheat Americans...
...pink highlights. In Three-Masted Schooner, green and bronze hues on the sails seem to reflect light from both shore and sea. Most striking of the nudes depicts an olive-skinned brunette and a rosy blonde reclining in affectionate languor on a couch, the pink sands of the Mediterranean gleaming through a window, a pink curtain blowing across a table, a statuet of a man on a pedestal in the background...
Langer claimed that it was "through systematic and ruthless propaganda" that Germany was forced to give up her colonies and only by return of them will she be deterred from aiding the Italians. With the existing conflict in the Mediterranean, England and France must keep "shoulder to shoulder" in placating Germany and stop- ping Mussolini, he declared...