Word: roading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These were the men who had gone beyond the turning-back, who had forcefully sworn their belief that repeal of the arms embargo was the first fateful footstep on a one-way road to war. Their votes and influence only two months ago had balked a then-irritable and often angry Franklin Roosevelt as he sought the embargo's repeal. They had forced adjournment without new neutrality legislation. And Borah had been their spokesman, as he quietly insisted in a White House night conference that he knew there would be no war-his sources of information were "better than...
...with groping around in the dark waiting for gas and bombs which never materialized. And the Government began to realize that wolf-wolfing the populace every night was poor psychology. A reaction set in. In "safe" areas, 2,000 cinemas opened, reported exceptional business. Actors went on the road: 73-year-old Dame Marie Tempest in Dear Octopus, John Gielgud in The Importance of Being Earnest, Diana Wynyard in Design for Living. Christmas pantomime Producer Francis Laidler went ahead with plans for Mother Goose, The Ugly Sisters, three other ?40.000 productions in which the hoarse-voiced, hairy-legged, loosely hairpinned...
...Louis theatre manager fortnight ago revived the cinema's most eloquent preachment against war, All Quiet on the Western Front, that nine-year-old picture played to packed houses. Last week Universal, producers of All Quiet and of Author Erich Maria Remarque's equally tragic sequel, The Road Back, announced plans to reissue both films. To All Quiet will be added a new commentary, fore & aft, and some of the 3,000 feet snipped from the film after it left the hands of Director Lewis Milestone. Universal will also restore to The Road Back controversial footage on Nazi...
...together with this attitude, we must keep faith that we can remain at peace. Perhaps faith can move mountains. At any rate, fatalistic discouragement is the best high-road to the low-land of war. Keep faith, lest the patient die for lack of will-power...
...priceless collections of gold and silver work, porcelain, tapestries, sculpture, manuscripts. For nearly two and a half years they had lain in crates, ponderously tagging after the defeated Government as it fled from Madrid to Valencia to Barcelona. Armored trucks finally took Spain's art along the refugee road to France, where it was sent for safekeeping to the League of Nations. When the Spanish war ended, most of the cases were shipped back to Spain. Only 175 masterpieces were kept in Geneva for exhibition-a show which turned out to be Europe's biggest peacetime event...