Word: storming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mother Advocate is laying plans to camouflage its building against "air raid, gas attack, and snow storm," Hudson Ansley '41, staff artist and camouflager, revealed last night...
Although she used fighting words last week, Eleanor Roosevelt used to be considered a pacifist. Last February, during the Isolationist storm over Franklin Roosevelt's sanction of warplane sales to France, she began to edge out of her corner. "Germany," she wrote, "is geared to produce a thousand planes a month; France to produce one hundred planes a month. . . . Do our sympathies lie with the other democracies, or do they lie with the totalitarian states...
Divorced. Grant Wood, 47, earthy U. S. artist whose neat, ironic brush has stirred up many a dust storm (American Gothic, Daughters of Revolution, TIME, Sept. 5, 1932); from Sarah Sherman Wood, 55; in Iowa City, Iowa. Grounds: inhuman treatment...
...Reconstruction and Germanization." The announced slogan of Nazi Labor Service battalions and Storm Troops in Germany's slice of Poland last week were "Reconstruction and Germanization!" Nearly all important bridges had been destroyed, either by German bombers or retreating Polish troops, and the first big job of the Labor Service was floating pontoons and patching up Polish bridgework which could be repaired. Meanwhile, the arms and eagles of Poland were torn down from municipal buildings, replaced by the swastika, and Polish street names were swiftly changed to German. The principal stores, hotels and business houses were left...
...miniature wife Dolly ("the little woman who has been my right hand man") spend their winters in Manhattan, their summers in New Mexico. Liked by everyone are Artist Sloan's portrayals of city life with its socks down: lean cats scavenging in a snowy back yard, a dust storm on Fifth Avenue, scrubwomen in a library, girls on a roof drying their hair, men lined up at a bar. Less liked are the strange, bright-colored nudes, hatched and crosshatched in red, green, black, with which he has stubbornly experimented for the past ten years...