Word: starkly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nobler Race." Stark was the fact that in Benito Mussolini and Power of Trinity realist faced realist and cunning fenced with cunning. In Europe last week the Dictator's pervasive diplomacy had caused Britain, France, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Sweden and Denmark to make official their ban on arms shipments to Ethiopia, induced France to have her High Commissioner in Syria bar Ethiopian recruiting among the savage Druses, and caused Sweden to forbid her airmen to sell their wings to Power of Trinity...
...Italian soldiers and workers sleep stark naked in the streets to escape the heat; others toil in a blistering sun without cork helmets and still others beg money from Arab sailors to buy food, which they are unable to buy with their meager...
...legendary character of the old South, all chivalresque, julepy and magnolious, is still stoutly upheld by such loyal romanticists as Stark Young and Julia Peterkin, but its present reputation has been considerably damaged by the nightmare realism of William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell. Author Caldwell, particularly, has been almost wholly concerned with telling tales on a part of the South no Southerner ever boasts of-the poor white trash that clutters the South's backyards. Often he makes his tattered crackers the scarecrow-heroes of wildly ribald yarns, but almost as often they appear as the victims...
Pole Vault--Won by Dubiel (H), 13 ft. 2 in. (New record); second, Woodbury (H), 12 ft. 6 in.; third, tie between Barcewicz (H), Cook (H), Piper (H), Waltonen (NU), and Stark...
Josef Stalin may allow Russians to bathe stark naked on the Nevsky banks, exile stubborn Kulaks to the wastes of Siberia, or teach clumsy railroad workers an object lesson in front of a firing-squad, but his cloven hoof appears in silk stocking with distressing frequency...