Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everyone knows that the next seven weeks are morally certain to see another Rightist offensive against Madrid. Around Gijon, last Leftist territory on the Bay of Biscay, there was much less than seven weeks to go. Snow was already under the tractor treads of the slowly advancing Rightist tanks; fogs and rains made aerial bombing almost impossible. Whipped on by El Caudillo ("The Chief") Franco's demands that "Gijon must fall before the snow," Rightist troops did capture a vitally important strategic peak on the Gijon front, but the city was still 30 miles of rough terrain from...
...originally thought up the idea and brought Roach to Rome. In Hollywood, Messrs. Roach and Mussolini had been more & more embarrassed as fewer & fewer people came to their parties and the "20-day" instruction period young Mussolini was to put in in the film capital was cut to seven after cinema trade papers carried full-page ads denouncing Vittorio Mussolini for having bombed Ethiopians last year and quoting him as having said "To me war is a sport-the most glorious sport in existence...
Culver City, seven mi. west of Los Angeles' midriff, has for two months clamored for the right to use the name Hollywood. Reasons: 1) Culver City boasts three major, several minor film studios;-2) cinemanufacture and Hollywood are synonymous. Not long ago Hollywood's Chamber of Commerce President O. K. Olesen, indignant, maneuvered through the Los Angeles City Council an ordinance defining Hollywood's boundaries, and Culver City, left definitely outside the fence, sullenly threatened to vote itself the name Hollywood anyhow...
Rewards to print lovers for a long dawdle through seven of the Museum's big, bright exhibition rooms began with a curiosity: a faded title page to a Suite d'Airs Connus, par Mozart, printed in Offenbach, Germany, in 1799 and decorated with one of the earliest known lithographs. Among great prints and notable prints thereafter encountered...
...Seven superb Daumiers...