Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British, who think they like nothing that is not staid and conservative, rise to colorful leadership as enthusiastically as any other people. Since May 10 Churchill has proved himself a superb showman, has popped up photogenically with his cherubic face on as many scenes and occasions as Eleanor Roosevelt or Mayor LaGuardia...
...before succeeding bomber waves arrived. The British fighters on "standing patrol" along the Channel met them on two levels, one force to shoot down bombers, one to fight fighters. Often, as the British engaged the Germans, a second and third wave of bombers appeared and more British fighters would rise to attack them. Hitler had set himself to beat Britain to its knees...
...more comfortable for newsmen, who lived in comparative luxury at Dover's Grand Hotel, than it had been in France. They could sleep most nights, rise at 6:30, bathe & shave in time for the day's first air raids. One early-morning alarm caught a British photographer in his bath. Trailing a towel behind him. he ran to the roof, snapped his pictures...
Last week, under the somewhat ambitious title Hitler and I, was published Otto Strasser's story of Hitler's past. Few books gave promise of being more enlightening. But this one did not quite live up to its promise. Valuable is its firsthand account of the rise of the Nazis and the Strasser role in it. Valuable too were the intimate glimpses and records of Nazi big shots; of Hitler in conversation with Ludendorff, Hindenburg, his sub-leaders; a vivid account of the June Purge, its debunking of Hitler's part in it; the chronicles...
...search for native oracles of U. S. fashion is an old one. Hollywood, with a lag between picture production and release, has long had to anticipate (or rise above) the coming styles. Its designers-led by M. G. M.'s Adrian-have a cachet of their own. Last week Hollywood Agent Mitchell J. (for Joseph) Hamilburg, who sold $1,000,000 worth (retail) of Deanna Durbin frocks to the trade in 1938, was organizing a fashion guild of studio designers to dictate the mode. Main drawbacks to Hollywood as a complete substitute for Paris (it has influenced Paris) were...