Word: rears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manners." A neat rear-guard action was executed by Mr. Hopkins in a parenthetic reference to the "generous peace" of the TVA-Commonwealth & Southern settlement...
Last week part of the treasure crossed the French frontier in the ragged pockets and worn suitcases of officers and men of the rear-guard brigade commanded by General Enrique Lister. But the great and incalculably valuable bulk of it was either hidden beneath rocks and trees in the Spanish Pyrenees-where it will be searched for until Kingdom Come-or had been blown to Kingdom Come in the courtyard of Figueras Castle...
...strong U. S. base at Guam as proposed by the Navy Department in the report drafted by Rear Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn would place a standing force of U. S. planes, submarines and perhaps capital ships where they would be within practical fighting distance of 1) the Carolines, 2) the Philippines, 3) Japan-all well within an effective 1,500 mile radius of action. It would also make possible cooperation with Britain's air and seapower at Singapore in case Japanese tried to seize the Philippines and go on toward British and Dutch possessions in the East Indies...
...actors, opening night means excitement and strain under the cold, fishy stare of critics. For the critics, opening night means running, sometimes before the show is over, back to their typewriters. For authors, after squirming in a seat at the rear of the house or wandering backstage with a brandy bottle, it means keeping a death watch until 4 a.m., when the papers come...
Navy's Plans. Last fortnight Rear Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn and three co-members of a board studying expansion of Naval defense lines recommended immediate establishment or improvement of 15 (out of 41 desired) submarine, destroyer, aircraft and mine bases, in the Pacific, Atlantic and Caribbean. Most dramatic item was a "strong advance fleet base" on the Island of Guam, far westward of the present limit of active operations in the Pacific, only 1,355 miles from Yokohama...