Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Settlement? Evidence that the Czech leaders want time to consider Henlein's demands, perhaps to accept his "autonomy" solution, was seen last week when they postponed for a fortnight a session of Parliament that is to tackle the problem...
...first to beat its peculiar hazards in his first competitive experience on a British course. He attributed his amazing victory to a suit of red flannel underwear his friend and fellow townsman, Bobby Jones, had given him to keep out the Scottish gales. Scottish spectators thought they had seen the greatest golfer since Bobby Jones...
...triple alliance between Chancellor Adolf Hitler, Premier Mussolini and General Franco is widely advertised and exalted by Rightist propaganda. Portraits of the three dictators appear on postcards. Every hotel this traveler has seen in Rightist Spain displays German. Italian and Rightist flags together," Callender wrote. "Mussolini's face, framed in a tin hat. glowers from the walls. Hitler's visage and book are shown in every town. . . . The Franco press, which uses foreign news selected by the German official news bureau, publishes nothing unfavorable to Hitler and Mussolini...
...then summoned General Yague to his office, reported Timesinan Callender, dressed him down with the warning that "some persons would be shot for talking as he did." Last week, temporarily absent from active command in the field, General Yague scotched rumors of imprisonment by taking care to be seen at a bridge-opening ceremony near Caspe...
...decades as a painter. While he was supposed to be teaching at Liverpool University in 1904 he disappeared for weeks at a time on camping trips with gypsies. He once left a train at Marseille and traveled all the way back into Spain to paint a girl he had seen from the train window. The satyrlike old Bohemian, John Bidlake, in Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point was immediately accepted in Bloomsbury as a fictionalization of Augustus John, minus the real artist's wild whiskers and his trick of looking fierce in one eye and hunted...