Word: star
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow the Red Army newsorgan Red Star published the text of leaflets given to Russian soldiers before they were started out for Poland, assuring them that the Generals and officers of the Polish Army had fled and containing appeals from the Polish populace for "liberation." In London, the Daily Telegraph & Morning Post reported that famed Karl Radek, who was the No. 1 Soviet publicist up to 1937 when he got ten years in jail for plotting with Nazis, has actually been "busy in Moscow since last March organizing Polish Bolsheviks for the very situation which has now developed." Reports from...
...power politics back of it, not one had seen action on any front last week. Ernest Hemingway was at his ranch in Montana, working on a new book. Vincent Sheean was in Manhattan, awaiting the birth of a child to his English wife. Pierre van Paassen, onetime Toronto Star correspondent in Spain, author of the bestseller, Days of Our Years, was on board the U. S. liner Manhattan, bound for New York...
Captain Torbie Macdonald was again the offensive star of the day, but he was forced to share the honors with his up and coming Sophomore understudy, Ed Buckley. Torble scored for the A team on a brilliant fifty yard run; Buckley tossed to a classmate, Greely Summers, for the B team's tally...
Every man had a station on a gun crew or in the gun director, working on ballistics. They received actual experience in anti-aircraft firing, star shell firing, blackouts, and searchlight drills, as well as in the ordinary mechanics of firing...
There are still seven lettermen back from the undefeated 1938 team, which fleshed up the season at the head of the New England League. Outstanding among these is Captain Howard Mendel, star of the team last year and second highest scorer in the League, who should be the sparkplug of the Crimson booters this fall...