Word: streets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They held the Colón Hotel. Two field guns protected it, and before the guns were soldiers with machine guns and rifles, sweeping the wide avenue from end to end. As the tumult of the whistles died away, two Cadillacs driven by anarchists zigzagged madly up the street toward the guns, making 70 m.p.h., their horns screaming. Like monstrous torpedoes they plowed through the line of soldiers, charged the gun crews, piled into a wall beside them in black, blood-spattered heaps of wreckage. Their drivers were dead. But the guns were silenced...
...succeed President Frothingham the I. B. A. chose a banker from as far away from Wall Street as possible - sunburned, zestful Jean Carter Witter of the California firm of Dean Witter and Co. At 46, Jean Witter is the crack security salesman of the Pacific Coast. Said Banker Witter last week: "I should like to put down as the first item on our schedule for 1938-39 - work with the SEC in carrying out the objectives of the securities legislation it is obligated to administer...
When news of the Fascist uprising reached Barcelona, two years ago, factory whistles all over the city began to blow. In the grey dawn, while the street lights were still burning, one whistle sounded, then another, then a hundred-steadily, mournfully, as in the old days the belfries clamored together in times of peril. Fascist troops were marching on the centre of the city...
...literary viewpoint, it looks as if Malraux got the better part. For while Hemingway's section (not yet published) is to deal with the clash of the two organized armies. Malraux's, covering the early period, is a swift, tumultuous affair of assaults on barracks, street-fighting, bombing, sniping, chaos, breakneck confusion, which somehow resolves itself into organization and ends in victory...
...habitual round of domestic squabbles and pleasures that make peace sweet for most men. They deal with war, and usually with the vanquished; with violence, and usually with those who suffer by it. To many a reader, as a result, they seem as lurid and shocking as a street accident. This criticism Malraux answers by pointing out that these accidents do happen, that in our own time they are everyday occurrences, that he is reporting the bloody legends of the modern world out of which, he hopes and believes, the golden legends will some day come...