Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, wants to convince Adolf Hitler that Britain will allow him no further land grabs, one sure way to do it would be to give a Cabinet job to the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, M.P. for Epping. For the past decade Mr. Churchill has been to the British man-in-the-street the personification of Empire do-or-die, and more recently as the British statesman most violently opposed to appeasing "the Huns." Accordingly he is one of the Führer's pet aversions. Several times Herr Hitler has gone...
...rest of the world was concerned, for the past six weeks the war between the Japanese and Russians on the border between Outer Mongolia and Manchukuo has been fought by the official Japanese and Russian "news" agencies. The Soviet news bureau, for example, killed 800 Japanese and shot down 45 planes in a four-day battle. The Japanese official releases retaliated by wrecking 100 Russian tanks, shooting down 53 planes. How much of all this was fact or fiction no one knew, for there was no accredited neutral correspondent within days of the trouble-spot. Only the Japanese wounded jamming...
Most of Things to Come is representational music. Its movements (with titles like "Attack," "Pestilence," "World in Ruin") describe a future world war and its aftermath. But to critics some of the Things appeared to have come out of the musical past rather than the future. They were reminded of England's late Composer Edward Elgar. Composer Bliss could not have been offended. His own estimate of his score: "It's all right on the surface. . . . It's dramatic, but it has little depth...
...recognizable portrait of Sonja Henie's past, Second Fiddle raises several interesting questions about her future. It is the first picture in which her skating is incidental to the plot. The skating sequences show her informally on the schoolhouse rink, formally in an elaborate production number that takes place in her daydreams while she is lounging by a California swimming pool. For, as Ginger Rogers yearns to do, and occasionally does, pictures without her dancing shoes, Sonja Henie's ambition is to do one without her skates. Judging from the acting Trudi Hovland does before her glass with...
...looks back ruefully on its ten checkered years of existence and hopes that it has finished taking its licking. In this connection it announced last week its first step toward quitting business as a utility holding company and setting up as an investment trust. It reported that in the past three months it had invested nearly $2,500,000 in 15 leading common stocks (Chrysler, DuPont, General Electric...