Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back from the Austrian frontier last week Benito Mussolini withdrew the 50,000 troops, the tanks and field guns that he sent to prevent an Austrian Nazi Putsch after the murder of Engelbert Dollfuss (TIME, Aug. 6). Prince Ernst von Starhemberg, Austrian Vice Chancellor, had just reported in Rome to Il Duce that Austria is now quiet. This week the new Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, is due in Italy to attend the annual war games as Premier Mussolini's guest. Last week the Italian troops which marched away from Austria did not march far. Most went back to their...
...horse with bad manners and an appetite so gluttonous that he had to be muzzled to prevent him from gobbling sticks and bits of wire. Cavalcade is smaller (15 hands, 3 in., 1,000 lb.), eats more moderately (nine quarts of rolled oats or wet feed daily, with a mixture of timothy and clover for roughage; four quarts of sliced carrots...
...adequately express our feelings of profoundest regret at the deplorable occurrence, when an aeroplane bearing our advertisement most unexpectedly appeared during the ceremony on the occasion of the opening of the Tunnel by Their Majesties the King and Queen. We implicitly believe that every precaution had been taken to prevent such an occurrence. In a letter to the proprietors of the plane we stated: In the first place we desire to make it very clear that we do not wish the plane to be overhead at any time throughout the King's program. But we accept full responsibility...
...Undine. But the experience had been valuable; back in London he was soon forging ahead, first as secretary to a rising M. P., then as an able underling in a Government office. When the War came a weak heart kept Tom from the front but did not prevent him from rising fast in his job. After the Armistice Tom threw over a promising political career for bigger pickings, married his dead friend's mistress, scurried faster and faster over the Tom Tiddler's ground of post-War London. He and Undine met again, realized too late that they...
...Coat and Glove (RKO). A married woman (Barbara Robbins) visits a young artist's flat, carelessly leaves her beret behindc Her lawyer-husband (Ricardo Cortez) goes to the flat, finds there the artist's discarded mistress (Dorothy Burgess), tries unsuccessfully to prevent her from shooting herself, departs without noticing that he has left his glove on the floor. The hat, the glove and the overcoat on which his mistress expires are introduced as evidence when the artist (John Beal) is tried for her murder. His attorney is the husband of the lady who owns the beret...