Word: storms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before he went to Washington this week to take his oath amid a storm of liberal protest John Milton declared, aping the Hague idiom: "I ain't never been arrested. I ain't never been indicted. I ain't never been convicted...
...MOON is MAKING-Storm Jameson -Macmillan...
Although the sentimental novels of J. B. Priestley have contradicted the stock picture of Yorkshiremen as the most stubborn, blunt-speaking cranky-wits going, the Yorkshire novels of Storm Jameson have usually fitted the picture very well. In The Moon is Making, a pre-War family chronicle, she shows as stubborn and crotchety a collection of Yorkshiremen as ever stumped. But also among them is one who comes near to being a stubborn Yorkshire saint...
Called by Farouk last week to form a new Cabinet was Egypt's leading wealthy political intrigant, Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha. His private army & political storm troops are the famed "Greenshirts." veterans of scores of street scuffles with the "Blueshirts," who are the private army of the Wafd. Outgoing Premier El Nahas not long ago ordered the Greenshirts dissolved, blaming them for an attack on his life; incoming Premier Mahmoud last week dissolved not only the El Nahas Blueshirts but all Egyptian "shirts"'-apparently thinking he and King Farouk could rely on the Army...
...With storm signals flying from the Charles River to the Divinity School, refugees are running to the Widener Library Reading Room to pick out some extra information from past years' exams, but they discover to their dismay only an incomplete and rather mutilated collection of midyear exam booklets. The rest are missing or lost among hundreds of people in the room. This state of affairs exists in part because the University Press stopped binding all midyear exams in 1934, and since then, the supply of bound exams is only kept up thanks to the efforts of the head...