Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...RETREAT FROM GLORY-R. H. Bruce Lockhart-Putnam ($3).Further frank up-&-down autobiography by the author of British Agent...
...focal infections were often the cause of systemic diseases like rheumatism, arthritis, heart disease, kidney disease. Immediately there followed a great wave of tooth-pulling, tonsil-snaring, adenoid-raking, sinus-reaming. The tide, however, had turned before Dr. Billings died two years ago, and last week was in full retreat as the American Academy of Ophthalmology & Otolaryngology met in Chicago...
...clubbed, kicked and mauled in scrimmages with deputies. At Fall River, Mass., Radical Ann Burlak. "The Red Flame,'' was forbidden to hold a meeting. In New Bedford, Mass. 3,000 pickets attacked the main gate of the Firestone Tire Fabric plant, showered windows with stones, forced 600 workers to retreat into the mill for safety. At Trion, Ga. a deputy sheriff and a non-union man were killed in a battle between strikers and deputies...
...Vatican City last week persons who had seen Extase in Venice carried complaints which reached even the ear of Pope Pius XI at his summer retreat in the Alban Hills. Next day the Papal news-organ, L'Osservatore Romano, flayed the goings-on in Venice, deplored the failure of Little Women to prove as popular as Extase, thundered particular displeasure at the loud booing in Venice of a dull French film devoted to exhibiting the beauties of cathedrals...
...over, Chief Landau hastened from Holland to Belgium, was in time to see the retreat of the German Army. There he met the members of his own little army of Belgian patriots, most of whom he had never seen. A group of Belgian professional men, bankers and the nobility, organized by an engineer and a professor, calling themselves "La Dame Blanche," had been his most valuable assistants. Greeting them was "the most dramatic moment of my life...