Word: spate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...readers, fewer critics, picked out of the spate of last year's novels a rich and strange book called The Salzburg Tales, by an unknown Australian author named Christina Stead. With her second, published last week, she made the oversight more remarkable. A needlewoman of extraordinary skill, she has made a lavishly embroidered silk purse out of the sow's ear of realism...
...Shorter than usual this year is George V's New Year's Honors List, for the reason that His Majesty is saving up for a spate of honors to be showered down on his Silver Jubilee (May 6, 1935). This week he upped only three subjects to the peerage: Sir Henry Betterton, Sir Wyndham Portal, Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh. To the plethora of titles with which his eldest son is burdened he added those of Admiral of the Fleet, General of the Army, Chief Marshal of the Air Force...
Last week, with Rooseveltism rife, II Duce was attempting to keep his promise with a spate of drastic measures in defense of the lira. For a member of the Fascist Party even to discuss the advisability of devaluing or inflating the lira was made grounds for instant dismissal from the Party, with consequent loss of all Government posts held...
...politicos are more deft than wary old President Arturo Alessandri, "The Lion" who emerged triumphant from that spate of revolutions which gave Chile six Presidents in 18 months (TIME, Sept...
...late days of the Reign of Terror a sallow faced little man stood up in a spate of gunfire and shouted an order. A dirty Paris mob had started a street fight, and in the interests of peace it must be stopped. There was the rumble of caissons over the cobbles, the dull roar of cannon, the outcries of a dispersing crowd, and Napoleon had ordered his first artillery into action. From that time on his name was writ large on the map of Europe. The Alps, Italy, Egypt, Marengo, and the little figure came out of the mists...