Word: retreater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany was beaten and Russia became the vulnerable enemy of all Europe. Duranty reminds his readers of Lenin's frank admission: "The real meaning of the New Economic Policy is that we have met a great defeat in our plans and that we are now making a strategic retreat...
...doing a soldier's share. Twice recommended for the Cross of St. George, she was wounded, captured by Kurds, shellshocked. When the Revolution broke the Bolsheviks caught her in a hospital at Kazan, threw her into prison. Rescued by Czechoslovaks who had joined the Whites, she shared the retreat of the Czechs across Siberia, escaped from Vladivostok to Japan...
Some Chinese said that Generalissimo Chiang had paid the 19th Route Army 6,000,000 Mexican silver dollars to retreat. But nobody claimed that the Nationalist executive session could do much but listen to Victor Chiang's "plans for the coming year...
...letters appealing for inflation to the big bankers of Manhattan-Morgan, Aldrich, Mitchell, Potter, Harrison et al. Said he to them: "After months of effort, here we are forced to appeal from an impotent Congress and a short-sighted administration to you, a higher power, to stop forcing the retreat and to, at once, give the order to advance...
...time to cut off the lights, bring in the candelabra and apologize for a blown-out fuse. During such a scene with a handsome singer (Esther Ralston) an angry husband bangs his way in upon Prince Alfred's philanderings. When the singer escapes, the Prince decides to retreat temporarily to his villa in Monte Carlo. He sends Josef ahead with his crested luggage. On the train Josef meets a lady's maid named Marie (Elissa Landi) who is also traveling with crested luggage. Each mistakes the other's social position. In Monte Carlo Josef yearns for Marie...