Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tree, and suffered severe bee stings as a result. In the upper right hand corner Medievalist Cranach appended his moral: Dum Puer Alveola Furatur Mella Cupido, Furanti Digit um Cuspite Ficit Apis. Sic Etiam Nobis Brevis et Peritura Voluptas Quam Petimus Tristi Mixta Dolore Nocet.* Because of the retreat of many of the best early paintings, the show leans heavily on the mystical 19th Century Romantics that for a brief while made Munich an art centre almost equal to Paris and Rome, profoundly influenced U. S. painters of the "Hudson River School" and the stolid portraitists that followed them. Other...
...Once he bleated, "I know that I am not a weak man and that I do not lack courage." He was bolstered by a vote of "affection and confidence" wangled through the Chamber by its radicals. Conservatives had the satisfaction that Premier Blum, during the debate, was forced to retreat from the rabble-rousing attitude which he struck recently at Poissy, addressing throngs of French workers beneath an enormous banner poster of himself remindful of those unfurled at Moscow to glorify Stalin (see cut). With his Communist supporters highly approving the stay-in-strike technique, Premier Blum felt constrained...
...McLaughlin and her 11-year-old daughter Barbara Irene are walking advertisements for "Irene Castle Hats." Calling on the trade, Mrs. McLaughlin often carries along a dog from her dog haven, "Orphans of the Storm, Inc." Last year the care of 8,000 canine orphans at this Deerfield, Ill. retreat cost her $16,000, a deficit whose liquidation requires the sale of a great many hats...
...oaths while Rome burned down. And Rome is burning. It is the Rome of Mr. Curley's authority over this Commonwealth. A year ago, when his seat of power was secure, one cannot imagine the self-confident governor injured by a professor's dart. Here is another shriek of retreat to show that Mr. Curley knows what November third has in store...
...Most Luxurious Royal Train" during the week of maneuvers, while Il Duce dashed about at the wheel of his car. As the games opened the "Red Army" under General Amedeo Guillet drove before it the "Blue Army" of Crown Prince Umberto. This was described as a "strategic retreat" and few doubted that His Royal Highness would regain the offensive with success against General Guillet, an officer insufficiently known to the Italian people to make his army's fate of national interest...