Word: resistible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, however, rumors that General Han Fu-chu, the able, progressive former Governor of Shantung, had been executed for failure to resist the Japanese (TIME, Jan. 24) were followed last week by definite news that he had been executed at Hankow by a firing squad. Said Shanghai's Daily China Press, which the distant Chinese Government still controls: "The shamelessness of many Chinese generals in the recent past is indeed appalling. Even in the days of the defunct [Imperial] Manchu regime responsible generals were wont to resort to suicide in attempts to redeem their personal honor...
Papal Claims-The Church is still bound to resist Roman Catholic claims of authority, but some Anglicans envision Christendom reunited under a papacy renouncing some of its present claims...
...specialist in china-clear coloring and slightly rococo composition, Artist de Caviedes brought none of his paintings with him when he hurriedly left Madrid a year ago, last week displayed mostly new pictures done in Cuba, including a starchy self-portrait (see cut). Hard for hard- shelled critics to resist were his cloudless canvases of Jark-skinned Cuban musicians and dancers, bright still-lifes, chic panels entitled Angel Musicians, Voluptuousness of the Rain. Artist de Caviedes left Spain because he had been painting murals in the Vatican just before the Revolution broke out and leaving the part of Spain...
...pillbox forts strung across the Yangtze delta back of Shanghai, was supposed to defend Nanking, but the defenders simply fled, not waiting to be attacked (TIME, Nov. 29). This Hindenburg Line, much more heavily fortified and built under German military engineers during the past six years, was constructed to resist an attack from the north at just about the point the Japanese have reached this week, a few miles north of Suchow. But now, if the Japanese cannot take it from the north they could send an army from Nanking to take it from the south...
...called the Phoenix Number. It is made up entirely of reprinted writings by former editors and contributors from George Santayana to Ernest A. Simpson. When another former editor, of so antique a date as the third year of the "Monthly's" infancy (1887-88), turns its pages he must resist the temptation to drop into an "in my day" mood--and so he does...