Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battle lines remained intact. A serious revolt of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's sympathizers was put down in Loyalist Cartagena and 30 Loyalist aviators escaped to Morocco in their planes. In their first manifesto members of the new Government even uttered bold words about "resisting to the utmost limit" and sinking or swimming together. But General Casado is an old-line career officer whose political attachments are much nearer to those of Generalissimo Franco than to Loyalist radicals. Moreover, prominent in the new junta is Julián Besteiro, former professor of logic at Madrid University, who months...
Facts have shown that Saint Gandhi's hunger pain is mightier than the sword; native riflemen have not got a fraction of the concessions from Britain that Saint Gandhi's torturing fasts have. But last week's fast was more serious than previous ones because Saint Gandhi's blood pressure was higher than it ever had been before and he was consequently more likely to die than ever before...
Despite the efforts of Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon, and despite photography which won the Academy Award, "The Cowboy and the Lady" taken as a whole is only mediocre. A ludicrous plot with an unconvincing combination of humorous and serious elements prevents the film from being more than fairly good entertainment...
...strength of this alliance, Maurois asserted, makes a serious European war an impossibility in the next twenty years, and the more closely the ties between these three nations are drawn, the more remote the possibility of war will become. Nothing will be more effective in strengthening them than an understanding of the essential humor of each nation...
...Since the Munich pact, French and British resistance has stiffened" Marx said. "I do not doubt that Germany realizes clearly that a serious move towards Objectives regarded as vital for France or Britain would make a second World War inevitable...