Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, inside Russia the threats came thicker & faster. Unlike anything so far seen on either side of World War II, students and workers staged great popular demonstrations in favor of war, demanding stern action against the "Finnish militarists." Moscow troops even got together and handed out statements declaring that there was a "limit to patience" and asking the Government to "bridle the [Finnish] provocateurs of war." Foreign newsmen were allowed to send out reports of huge concentrations of Soviet troops in the Leningrad district which, it was said, were ready for action. The Moscow radio called upon the Finnish people...
...Some idle women made an effort to assemble amazing 'war costumes' that betrayed their vague nostalgia for an officer's uniform. Raincoats closed with slide fasteners made a startling appearance in the restaurants of the moment, as well as the most tailored jackets you have ever seen, at which you glanced a second time to find the epaulets, the decorations, and the service stripes. And sometimes, on my word, you found them...
...American. Taken by an amateur photographer at Wilbur, Wash., it was a picture of the meteorological phenomenon called "pillar halos." One authority on the physics of the air, Dr. William Jackson Humphreys of the U. S. Weather Bureau, pronounced it the best picture of pillar halos he had ever seen...
...running mate Bill Hutchinson of Dartmouth steps to the fore. Without a peer as a gridiron opportunist this fleet Indian back was a scoring threat every second he was playing against all opposition this fall. John McLaughry of Brown, as brutal a bucker as Ivy League football has over seen had an off-year but still gets the call over Rainwater, Chismadia, or Seymour
Scipio Africanus (Italian) is as magnificent a bit of Fascismo as has come out of Italy since Marcus Cato rose to tell the Roman Senate: "Delenda est Carthago" (Carthage must be liquidated). It is also as spectacular a show as the movies have seen since the Italian Quo Vadis? first made the U. S. spectacle-conscious...