Word: rested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will take some weeks before General Franco can rest and reorganize his forces and replenish his supplies for a big drive on central Loyalist Spain but last week the Rebel commanders began giving Madrid a bloody foretaste of the fight to come. The big guns outside Madrid, fired only sporadically for a year, opened up in earnest and plumped their shells into the city. Twenty-four were killed and 64 wounded in one day's barrage. Rebel bombers this week also resumed heavy attacks on Valencia and Alicante, two of the three main ports remaining in Loyalist hands...
Twenty years after the World War Belgium is still torn with Wartime hatreds. The Walloons and many loyal Flemings have never forgiven those Flemish politicians who played ball with the German invaders in the hope that Germany would sever Flanders from the rest of Belgium and set it up as an autonomous state. Many pro-German Flemings were arrested for treason and imprisoned after the War and as long as King Albert sat on the throne, they had no hope of securing their freedom. Two years ago, however, broad-minded young King Leopold set out to unify his nation before...
...approaching conclave of Cardinals, all papal offices and appointments technically lapsed after the death of Pius XI. All the Cardinals, even the Penitentiary and the Camerlengo, at once doffed the distinguishing mark of their rank, the short, capelike mantelletta, wearing simply the white mozzetta or small cape, the rest of their attire violet for mourning...
...Must Love Someone (by Jack Kirkland & Leyla Georgie; produced by Jack Kirkland) tells of six fly young ladies who, at the turn of the century, made up a Florodora Sextet.* In Act I, along with six swains, they render Tell Me, Pretty Maiden quite fetchingly; then for the rest of the show they gallivant with various admirers whose attentions go considerably beyond candy, books and flowers. One Pretty Maiden goes in for blackmail; another enjoys watching her aged suitor tumble down a flight of steps; a third is kept by a pal of the Mayor's; a fourth gets...
...Lincoln story is fun to read, and since Editor Hertz frankly tried to collect all the stories rather than all the true stories, this anthology makes particularly easy reading. Its Lincoln is lovable, immensely humorous, quick as an eagle, wise as an owl, gentle as a dove. For the rest, the book adds to the bulk if not to the substance of the honest truth about Honest...