Word: storms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prior to the new King's departure for Cairo. May g encouraged the Covent Garden Opera season by leasing a box, though he attended no operas up to last week. May 16 saw privately his first stage performance since he came to the Throne, the last act of Storm In a Teacup presented in the home of Lady Cunard. May 20 inspected the Coldstream Guards at Aldershot, shouting in at the mess hall door "Any complaints?" May 25 inspected the Queen Mary prior to her maiden voyage, flying from his snuggery, Fort Belvedere at Sunningdale, to Southampton and back...
...Things to Come-a cinematic prediction of life in the next 100 years-marks the debut as a screenwriter of (1 Aldous Huxley, 2 Herbert George Wells, 3 George Bernard Shaw, 4 Phyllis Bentley, S Storm Jameson...
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When the temptation arises to storm the dwelling of a section man and inquire whether or not he thinks he can get away with giving a D plus, it would be well for the student to remember the moral maxim of a seventeenth century philosopher who vowed that in the face of adversity he would remember to attempt the conquest of himself rather than the conquest of the immutable forces of the world...
...doubtless already been beaten to death or shot. Given 48 hours to leave Germany, Kassner has one chance of getting safely away: a rickety plane piloted by a fellow-Communist. Though the weather is so stormy that all passenger planes are grounded, they take off. beat through a blinding storm to Prague. There Kassner sees once more his wife and child, gets a breathing space before going back to his Party's work in Germany and his own inevitable death...