Word: stew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real Irish stew of a book, Army Without Banners has a smoky flavor, is spudded with hunks of lyrical description, plenty of jagged bones and gristle of realism, and enough meat to go round. Author O Malley has not piled on his horrors as he might: more than once he obviously cuts a grim tale short. But not always. In the worst days of the Trouble, when the British were shooting any Irishman they caught with arms on him. O Malley's men captured three English officers. They were armed. Under standing orders from headquarters, O Malley had them...
...perhaps most important, the provision that all American claims to any materials whatsoever, intended for a belligerent country, must be relinquished before they leave an American port. The neutrality bill fits the pressing demand for a strictly defined policy, permitting the President to stick his finger in the stew only to proclaim a "state of war" and possibly add to the embargo list...
...three-quarter-mile toboggan slide led down into South St. Paul's Main Street where "Hook 'Em Cows" prepared to serve 15,000 quarts of stew cooked in a huge kettle outdoors. From the Ice Palace a four-block slide sluiced down Cedar Street. Parks and public rinks were crowded and daily parades of gaudy costumed carnivalists marched and countermarched to watch hockey games, dogsled races, ski jumping, snowshoeing. Inside the State Fair Hippodrome, Ralph Hachenbach of Chicago witj| his long-bladed racing skates sliced almost four seconds off the U. S. two-mile indoor record (time...
...whole, the conditions are not encouraging for a good skiing week end. Pinkham Notch and Wildcat Trails: 10" of heavy wet snow, covered with hard crust. Need more snow: Mt. Mansfield: Stew, Vt.; four to six inches of snow with a few bare spots on the practice slopes. Up to 36" of snow on Mountain Tow rd. Nose Dive slide is patched with icy surfaces. Suicide to try this. Lesser trails better than Nose Dive but still bad: Mt. Cardigan; Alexandria N. H.; six and one half inches of old snow on practice slopes, '12" on Duke's trail. Main...
Since it was last week's decision of the Great Powers that Spaniards should stew in their own blood, this fearless, heroic and cruel people continued the appalling exhibition which makes modern historians write after each war in Spain that the country is "still in some respects medieval...