Word: patches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rudely rocked in Latin America last week was the tradition that after generals have made war diplomats make peace. Utterly deadlocked, diplomats of Bolivia and Paraguay who have been trying to patch up peace during the Gran Chaco War armistice were served rough notice that they can go home and unbutton their spats by the two gruff commanders who fought each other to a standstill, Paraguay's General José Felix Estigarribia and Bolivia's General Enrique Peñaranda. These two extraordinary militarists, who opened the armistice with a champagne luncheon at which they toasted each other on the battlefield (TIME...
Since it is doubtless too late for the Dictator to patch up that mistake in the public view, greater World interest focused on his other words last week at Bolzano: "Italy has a question to settle with Ethiopia. She does not have and does not wish to have questions with Great Britain. . . . The Fascist Government thinks that Italy's colonial question should have no reaction on the European situation, unless one wishes to run the risk of letting loose a new World War in order to prevent a great power like Italy from bringing order to a bad country...
...Figures exclude the pain and horror of savage mutilation-which means they leave out the point. . . . Even a mangled body on a [morgue] slab, waxily portraying the consequences of bad motoring judgment, isn't a patch on the scene of the accident itself. No artist working on a safety poster would dare depict that in full detail...
...Kernan; Robert Kernan; D. B. Kitchel; E. B. Knowlton; Norman Lanz; J. N. Latorraca; Ralph Lawson; Maurice Lazarus; B. G. Leighton; G. S. Lewis; A. H. Litt; F. M. Ludden; Kenneth MacLeish; D. N. McKay; J. S. Munroe; J. D. Ogilby; E. H. Osgood; Alfonse Ossorio; H. R. Patch, Jr.; John Parcell; E. C. Reppun; E. F. Ringer; F. M. Rivinus; R. E. Rogers; H. P. Rosen; J. C. Rowley; Nicholas Satterlee; Peter Scott; R. L. Scott; H. P. Shaw; W. W. Shirk; E. S. Skinner; R. W. Sides, E. A. H. Sims; F. B. Snyder; F. H. Stewart...
...broke, jobless, totally blind. Three weeks ago a doctor offered to patch up his right eye. Last week Sam Langford blinked, saw his first light in five years, blubbered, laughed, pounded his doctor's shoulders...