Word: tooing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week police searched the labyrinthine cellars of the Houses of Parliament for spies, even poked through the ventilating system and set a patrol on the roof. At 2 p.m. workmen and staff employes were sent home, and soon afterward certain brawny nobles staged a regular Rugger scrum for the...
Dawn: Dark enough to strike without giving too much away, light enough to set the victim up in silhouette. It was to be a simple operation. All the Admiral Graf Spec had to do was warn the plodding French freighter not to send out radio alarms, take off her jittery...
Three cruisers to fight. She should be able to wallop them. The two light cruisers carried 6-inchers-too light to pierce the Spee'?, heavy armor, but plenty big enough to do damage far forward and aft, where the skin was thin, and in parts of the superstructure. And...
Uruguayan officials went aboard, found Spee's seaworthiness impaired, granted a 72-hour stay. Spee took on oxygen welding torches and steel plates and went to work. There was sad work to do, too. Sixty wounded men were treated: two went ashore to hospital. Thirty-six bodies were put...
Long lacking has been a concise, up-to-date, inexpensive encyclopedia of the theatre. The Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays (Crown, $3), out last week, adequately fills the need. It is marred by too much sloppy writing and too many canned opinions; but inside its 900 pages Editor Bernard...