Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly a stab of flame gashed the airship's flank near the port stern gondola. So swiftly that to many it seemed instantaneous the flame engulfed the whole rear half of the ship. There was a muffled, booming WHOOSH and a huge belch of white fire and smoke mushroomed skyward...
Spaniards in the Rightist ranks hate all their foreign colleagues, but have found the thin ranks of the Irish Brigade easiest to impose on. In the frontal attack on Madrid recently the Irish Brigade suddenly found itself under heavy rifle and machine-gun fire from its own rear, suffered heavy casualties, had to fight its way back through the Rightist ranks...
...Brihuega, and Rightist General Franco and his German and Italian backers were bound to make that defeat good last week. More than prestige was at stake in the attack on Bilbao. Bilbao captured should give the Rightists control of the Biscay coast, remove serious military pressure on their rear, allow thousands of men to be transferred to the siege of Madrid. Most important of all it would bring Franco and his Nazi and Fascist backers the most valuable iron deposits in Spain...
Cooper Union. That this fusty building near the rear door of Wanamaker's department store houses a public museum is unknown to many New Yorkers. That it contains many of the most important drawings and paintings of Winslow Homer and his contemporaries is unsuspected by more...
...theological seminary. Columnist Westbrook Pegler recalls a pre-War burlesque house on State Street in Chicago where, after the performance, the comedian auctioned off the girls to members of the audience, "who claimed them then and there and took them, still in costume, to the beer hall in the rear. Possibly they married and settled down in the suburbs to raise large families of respectable Americans, but from the way things seemed to be going about midnight that was impossible." Pre-War burlesque, however, was not in the same class with burlesque since the Depression...