Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protect the long Italian line back to the coast. In his tent last week he sat reading dispatches, wishing he were further south enjoying the fun in Addis Ababa. Up to his tent rode a bedraggled, bearded native on muleback carrying a twisted twig and a scrap of white cloth. Stiffly dismounting, the blackamoor bowed low to the ground in token of submission. It was Ras Seyoum, onetime ruler of Tigre Province, the "Black Fox of Ethiopia." ablest of the north Ethiopian chieftains. For six months he had held Italy's armies at bay. Alone he had arrived...
...prostrate Turkey watched the destruction of its forts by the victors. In 1923 the Treaty of Lausanne decreed that the famed Straits should be open to all ships, should never again be fortified by Turkey. Last fortnight Turkey's President Mustafa Kamal ("Grey Wolf") Ataturk moved to scrap the Treaty of Lausanne, refortify the strategic Dardanelles...
...blown to tatters in their hands by the shot Japan discharged in withdrawing from the conference because her "honor" would not permit her to abide by the 5-5-3 ratio any longer (TIME, Jan. 27). The Naval Conference was seen this week to have saved for signing a scrap of a treaty...
...right to object to what Germans call the Diktat of Versailles, much less to the freely negotiated and not dictated Locarno Pact. "Once again we are asking ourselves," summed up Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G., " 'Is any treaty made with Germany more than a scrap of paper?'. . . For Britain the only possible course is to follow the same policy as she has done in the case of Italy" - i. e., hurl League sanctions against Germany...
Dubin is heavy, careless, good-natured, writes a lyric on any old scrap of paper. He cheerfully recalls the days when he peddled his verses for $10 to $15 apiece, finally gained recognition with Just a Girl That Men Forget (1923). Hollywood salaries have tempted many of its songwriters to become "country gentlemen," raise blooded roosters, olive trees, avocados. Dubin recently bought an elaborate estate in San Fernando Valley where he still chews tobacco, sucks his corncob pipe...