Word: seacoast
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Reports from Chinese seacoast cities were that Japanese freighters are now rolling in loaded to the scuppers and that most Japanese lines in the China trade have chartered extra freighters. Propped up in front of Chinese editors were orders from the Government threatening to suppress any newspaper which "supports the stand of the ignorant merchants." In a circular telegram the Generalissimo wrathfully declared: "THE GOVERNMENT WILL NO LONGER TOLERATE THE UNREASONABLE ATTITUDE OF THE PUBLIC...
...Yorkers last week were discovering a new place to have fun at night, the like of which had not been seen since the days (1928-29) when Author Christopher Morley was producing old melodramas on his "Seacoast of Bohemia" (Hoboken). In an old church on Manhattan's East 55th Street, last occupied by a congregation of Holy Rollers, a co-operative group of actors was presenting The Drunkard, or The Fallen Saved...
...play concerns itself with a very brief, but critical, episode in the lives of three people. Two are former French soldiers, just released from the service and about to sail for Canada; the other is Therese, a pretty barmaid in a small wineshop near the docks of a seacoast town in northern France...
...that maneuvers are beginning. They began last week from Asti in Piedmont south across the Ligurian Alps to the Italian Riviera. The problem was obvious: the defense of Genoa and the manufacturing cities of Italy's north from a French invasion through the mountain passes and along the seacoast. The Fascist militia was mobilized, acting in reserve for the regular troops. In the field too were little King Victor Emmanuel and Il Duce, who hurried over from his conference with Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria fortnight ago (results of which were announced last week) to establish headquarters at Garessio...
...Province into an arc south of the Great Wall, last fortnight's truce had by last week actually brought to North China what Premier Wang Ching-wei called a "breathing spell." To bind the verbal agreement, Chinese Lieut. General Hsiung Ping last week went to Tangku on the seacoast. As he stepped off his swank special train, he saw two Japanese destroyers tied at the docks. Their guns were trained on Tangku, the gun turrets manned. A Chinese armored train pulled in, its guns trained on the destroyers. Every 20 feet stood a Chinese with a rifle, revolver, machine...