Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oblige his British friends. Plagued with the vision of a possible bloody revolution in India should the British be forced to leave (and there is nothing he abhors more than blood), the Mahatma has of late become one of Britain's stanchest friends. But he was on a spot, for if he came out flatly for war support, his smart Leftist opponents would seize the opportunity of a lifetime and probably dethrone him as the throneless leader of India's millions...
...monument in the Vosges marks the spot where, in 1914, Grand Rabbi Abraham Bloch was killed while bringing a cross to a dying French officer. Last week Grand Rabbi Maurice Liber, peacetime head of Paris' rabbinical school, now aumônier general for the army's Jews, combed France for Jewish chaplains. Entitled to 48, he could find only 26. The total enrollment of the rabbinical school-twelve youths-was mobilized in the army, but proved insufficiently trained to serve as aumƦniers...
Manhattan's winter nightlife season got under way, set New York society columnists to twittering over the new nightspots and their patrons. Most twittery spot: the new Hawaiian Maisonette of the swank St. Regis Hotel. Most twittered-of socialites: Tobacco Millionheiress Doris Duke and her husband James Henry Roberts Cromwell, who was photographed in a lei, hula-hulaing with bare-foot Hawaiian...
...which it is expressed. Mr. Conant does not argue the case for repeal. Once his opinion is stated, he drops the issue completely. What follows is an astute bit of mancuvering calculated to put Mr. Landon--and, of course, the embargo bloc as a whole--neatly on the spot. His words show a masterful knowledge of American political machinations...
When the revamped picture opened last week in San Francisco, result of such tinkering was almost as complete a disaster for All Quiet on the Western Front as even Nazis could have wished. Hard to spot were any restored cuts. The historical newsreel was a separate show. The strident commentator, harshly sounding off in the worst tradition of Russian soapbox films, demolished each of the picture's high-voltage, moving climaxes as efficiently as if a 12-inch shell had ripped through the screen...