Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other side of the war, the Chinese appeared cocky. Back in Washington, Nelson Trusler Johnson, able and well-informed U. S. Ambassador to China, reported that Chinese morale was excellent, China's hopes high. In Chungking, Sun Fo, President of the Chinese Legislative Yuan, son of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, substantiated Mr. Johnson: "Our prospects are progressively brighter. We fight on with growing confidence, new unity and new strength...
...openly aid the Spanish Loyalists, just as Italy and Germany are openly helping the Rebels. The realistic French General Staff was reported to be contemplating occupying the Island of Minorca and Spanish Morocco if the Italian-backed Rebels win the war. There were scary rumors that the Rebel-held side of the French-Spanish frontier had been fortified. There were predictions that a Mediterranean "Munich," with Italy the victor and France the loser, was in the offing...
Last week dumpy, soft-looking little Emperor Hirohito sampled the warfare on which his soldiers in China are fed. For breakfast he and his wife squatted before a low table on which rested a bowl of boiled rice and barley, and side dishes of powdered bean paste and pickled radishes. At lunch the menu read: millet gruel, side dishes of bean noodles, pork, boiled spinach and salty pickled plums. That evening the Emperor and Empress dined on boiled rice and barley again, had side dishes of dried fish, carrots and boiled lotus roots. One day of warfare was enough...
From their pet playwright the glittering audience got only Grade B Coward. One superb, side-splitting burlesque of an English charity pageant is probably the funniest sketch that Coward has ever written. Two of the songs, Mad About the Boy and The Stately Homes of England...
Next day, to make his own principles articulate, Archbishop Mooney summoned all the 542 priests of his archdiocese-including one whose parish work is something of a side line, and whose love for labor is not great, Rev. Charles Edward ("Silo Charlie"*) Coughlin. As a starter in helping "Christian workers to train themselves in principle and technique to assume the leadership in the unions which their numbers justify," Archbishop Mooney proposed founding parish labor schools. Such schools, he said, might "sift the good from the bad in labor proposals, and be the defenders of sound, constructive union activity against . . . Communistic...