Word: rout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preliminary game, the Crimson Yardling swamped a Tufts Freshman outfit in a 15-2 rout...
...civil war, the offensive has passed for the first time to the Leftists. Rightist Spain, which proclaimed its Government at Burgos on the sixth day of the war and is recognized as a nation by Germany and Italy, had never lost territory it had once conquered until the recent rout of Italians in the Guadalajara sector in "un piccolo Caporetto" (TIME, April 5). By last week the Rightists had lost strips and snippets of territory here & there along most of their fronts as the Leftists proved able for the first time to get out in the open and launch sustained...
...word that no Italian likes to hear is "Caporetto," the name of the Alpine village where in 1917 the Italian army broke and ran in the most ignominious rout of the War. Italians heard that word many times last week as fact after fact emerged to show that the defeat of the Italian legions was overwhelming, catastrophic, perhaps un piccolo Caporetto ("a little Caporetto"). Air fighters on both sides are now so good that daylight bombing of important centres is considered too risky. Madrid has not been daylight-bombed for two months. In Salamanca even veteran Hearst Correspondent Karl...
Even official Berlin broadcasts admitted the Italians had suffered heavy losses, Rome was mum with mortification, and Madrid broadcasters had the Italians fleeing headlong as at Caporetto, in utter rout, abandoning field guns, anti-tank guns, ammunition, food and even that soldiers' treasure-cigarets-as Soviet bombing and pursuit planes harried them from the skies' and Red Militiamen charged after them through deep mud and slush...
Most interesting fact about the manufacture of Michael Strogoff is the fact that not only its big scenes-Tartar troops riding across the steppes, rout of the Tsar's regiments by Ogareff's cavalry-but almost all the outdoor sequences were actually filmed in Siberia, giving the picture a photographic validity that could not possibly have been duplicated in California where almost every foot of available landscape is already familiar to cinemaddicts. Second most interesting fact is that all this apparently expensive panoramic authenticity cost RKO practically nothing. Michael Strogoff was originally made in both French and German...