Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leftist General Miaja, increasingly a leader of the populace rather than an orthodox commander, evidently thought psychology would fight on the side of continuing to hold Brunete, however desperate the cost. With the sky full of battling pursuit ships and lumbering bombers, Leftists and Rightists spent the week locked in combat, each giving the other all they had. Rightists first swept overwhelmingly forward to retake Brunete, then as the afternoon wore on Leftists crept forward, recaptured most of Brunete in a sunset onslaught and by dawn were stubbornly giving ground, battling bayonet to bayonet, with warcraft diving from the skies...
...swift kick by a Japanese sentry found its mark last week in the stomach of attractive Miss Carol Lathrop, 18 (see cut), sister-in-law of a U. S. Marine captain stationed in North China. Weeping, but not greatly injured, Miss Lathrop then got a kick in the side, and a Mrs. Jones with whom she had been out for a stroll, received a powerful kick in the behind from another Japanese sentry. Vigorous protests by U. S. Ambassador to China Nelson T. Johnson were unavailing last week as Japanese officials maintained there had been "no violence." Sniffed Mrs. Jones...
...nostalgic New York Times editorial last week observed, "side-wheelers and side-whiskers go together in the memory." Thousands of New England newlyweds and not-yet-weds got their first breathless glimpse of Manhattan from the deck of a Fall River queen, occasional suicides bought tickets and jumped overboard, U. S. Presidents and statesmen from abroad enjoyed the luxury of travel on Long Island Sound and well-dressed financiers on board were mistaken for sports and gamblers by sports and gamblers. A great show for ordinary passengers and dock gawpers was the splendorous debarkation of socialities at Newport...
...Goldwyn-Mayer), written by Anita Loos & Robert Hopkins, is possibly Jean Harlow's best picture as well as her last. Glib, forthright, knowing and adroit, released last week to coincide with the opening of the 1937 season at New York's old spa, it investigates the lighter side of the serious sport of horse racing with as much good sense as good humor...
...very high opinion of bankers, particularly those bankers who helped foist on the U. S. public the $2,000,000,000 worth of dollar bonds now in default. Moreover, SEC found that bankers in their various capacities of trustees, paying agents and underwriters were frequently lined up on the side, not of their customers, but of their clients, the defaulters...