Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Associated Press sent a correspondent southward from Peiping on June 11 to plunge into guerrillaland and get the story. His dispatches are now reaching the U. S. by mail. For the present, AP dares not divulge his identity...
...keep up their twice-a-week raids, they will cost the Japanese half a million yen a year. If 1,000 villages do the same, Japan will have to increase her army budget half a billion yen a year, reason the guerrillas. Therefore, 2,000 organizers have recently been sent out to carry on concerted rail-raiding parties...
Last month the U. S. protested that Japan had closed besieged China's "Open Door" to U. S. business. Chapter & verse of specific violations of the Nine Power Treaty of 1922 were sent from Washington to Tokyo. Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye observed that there was a "new order" in East Asia, and the Japanese Foreign Office official spokesman declared that the Nine Power Treaty was "obsolete...
Monomark is a ludicrous egocentric who eats little but raw onions and oatmeal, is surrounded by slavish sycophants who toady to his ignorant misconceptions, abuses his distracted underlings and usually triumphs by some absurdly fortuitous accident. In 1930 Lord Beaverbrook sent Waugh to cover the Ethiopian coronation. Waugh repaid him with a lampooning in Black Mischief. Later Lord Beaverbrook sent Waugh to cover the Ethiopian war. Waugh bladdered him again in Scoop...
...Last week NBC's television mobile unit went to the bank of New York City's East River to televise a swimming pool. When the engineer saw fire break out in an abandoned U. S. Army barracks on Wards Island, he swung his camera around, caught and sent through the air television's first fire. Flames, smoke, a fireboat's futile efforts to save the building all appeared on the screen, were seen in the studios by television's first buffs...