Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps I am wrong but I was wondering if some photographer had fooled TIME or was TIME trying to palm off on us an unauthentic photograph-a thing which even the best of journalists have not at times balked...
...this was well-known modern history, but not the sort of thing the Cabinet officers of one nation say about another. The reaction, as expected, was brief and bitter. Said a Foreign Office spokesman for Japan: "Regrettable." Said the semi-official German Deutsche Diplomatisch-Politische Korrespondenz: "The German nation does not want lessons from any quarter on the subject of national freedom, self-determination and its best interests." Wrote Mussolini's spokesman, Virginio Gayda, in Giornale d'Italia: "We should like to believe his words were never uttered, but if they are authentic they constitute...
Meanwhile, in Barcelona, Author-Correspondent Vincent Sheean took advantage of the lull to get off a few fresh observations on the 22-month-old war. Most striking thing about the war to Sheean, who reached Spain only two months ago, is its incongruous combination of ultra-modern and primitive methods. The ultramodern: "Newfangled bombs, thermite, delayed-action fuses and the like, which are capable of greater destruction than any bombs hitherto used in war." The primitive: "There are no proper trenches anywhere [with the exception of those outside Madrid]. The ditches and ravines in these dusty clay hills take...
...Certainly not. The Exchange has all of the machinery; it keeps watch of its members, is supposed to see their statements and all that sort of thing and I presume I naturally did assume that the Exchange was defending itself...
...story, both sons (who also become friends) follow the course laid down for them. Oliver Essex, a beautiful, spoiled child, grows into a handsome snob, treats his doting father like dirt. In spite of that, Essex continues to pamper him. But when Oliver, at 18, wants (and gets) one thing his father never had-a sophisticated beauty named Livia-the Essex-&-son relation blows up, Oliver refuses to return. Meanwhile, Rory O'Riorden becomes a leading Irish revolutionist, a good man wasted, as his father has long since decided...