Word: returned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refugees' care was not his baby. Rebel Spain has, in fact, made the refugee problem a bargaining point with the French Government. Furthermore, it is not likely that the dictator is any more eager to have back almost a half-million militant Republicans than they are to return to his dictatorship. General Franco's Catalan border was closed last week...
Most unusual of Mrs. Hughes-Hallett's fiestas was one for Dr. Emil Rothman on his return from Cleveland after a serious abdominal operation. Suddenly a long-faced butler wheeled a hospital operating table into the centre of the drawing room, with careful solemnity folded the sheets back, revealing a dummy with a pink tissue-paper stomach. The "stomach" was split open and out came spaghetti and link sausages...
What that declaration was he would not say just then. But significant was a German Foreign Office statement, issued but immediately withdrawn pending further developments: "The return of Czecho-Slovakia to the German Reich would signify the restoration of ancient historical conditions. . . . An unambiguous situation in Czecho-Slovakia is indispensable to the security of Germany. . . ." Significant, too, were the remarks of a British Government "spokesman" who observed that while the four Munich powers had agreed to guarantee mutilated CzechoSlovakia's external borders, her internal divisions were no concern of Britain's. That did about all that was needed...
Already on view are Let Freedom Ring and Stagecoach. In production are Union Pacific, Dodge City and The Return of The Cisco Kid. Projected by the Marx Brothers is an epic entitled Go West, which will aim to end the cycle by burlesquing it. In The Oklahoma Kid, the current vogue of the Western is dramatically exemplified by the fact that in it James Cagney, whose cinema career has taken him as far toward the great open spaces as gangsters' hideouts, appears equipped with sombrero, cowboy suit, lasso and two remarkably effective hoss pistols...
...Chicago, Joseph Algori hoisted himself up 30 feet in a painter's scaffold to a newly painted sign of a pretty girl, proceeded to paint on her face a full Vandyck beard. On his return to earth, police arrested him on charges of malicious mischief, disorderly conduct, intoxication...