Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frontal advance on Japanese entrenched positions was ordered by General Li Tsung-jen, but rather a series of sweeping side attacks, each more intense than the other, each spaced to give the Japanese scant time to recuperate from the last. The Chinese general hoped by these tactics to wear down the Japanese forces so that a general retreat would be ordered...
...avowed Republican pledged to upset the Throne, and he came out as a Monarchist in a public speech only a few weeks before the March. Significantly the Fascist marchers on Rome were poorly armed, whereas His Majesty had mobilized powerful army units, held discreetly in barracks and side streets of Rome. Editor Mussolini remained at Milan 400 miles away until after the March, then accepted the telegraphed invitation of Vittorio Emanuele to come to Rome and form "His Majesty's Government" as Premier...
...Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a third at the Fascist Altar on the Capitoline Hill. Lunch was at the King's Palace, followed by a go-minute conference in Il Duce's office, and then the two Dictators drove to Rome's airport. On one side of this half-mile-square field naval cadets dressed & undressed a full-rigged ship (dummy). Fascist youths 50,000 strong, from 6-year-old Sons of the Wolf to 18-year-old Young Fascists, drilled to the music of 2,600 trumpets which at one point blew the Wedding March from...
...with incendiary bullets which set fire to their targets. The latest Italian artillery then went into action, followed at Rome that evening by a gala Royal Opera performance of musical Adolf's favorite Lohengrin. Next morning Premier Mussolini drove unobtrusively to the railway station, popped in by a side door, while His Majesty the King-Emperor arrived in his victoria with departing Guest Hitler. Il Duce. after seeing the Führer into his private train, dashed ahead in his own private train at a faster clip to Florence. There Art Lover Hitler browsed through the famed art museums...
...show emphasized quality. Sculptor William Zorach's Football Player, a lineman relaxed on his haunches, impressed critics as one of the few successful handlings to date of that oddly difficult subject. Artist Marc Perper's Poverty was an unusually solid work of imagination. On the doctrinal side, Stuart Davis contributed a hopeful catalogue note on Democracy...