Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adolf Hitler last week showed more grimly than ever his determination to press his demands against Poland (see col. 3), the Free City of Danzig, the old Hanseatic town on the Baltic, became Europe's chief danger spot. Danzig is 95% German. It is ruled by Nazis. It is politically (if not economically) free from Polish rule. Students of the Treaty of Versailles have long criticized the detachment of Danzig from Germany at the World War's end and the placing of the city in the Polish customs union. If it is accepted that Austria, the Sudetenland...
...squad takes its first out-of-town trip this weekend with Dartmouth and Brown providing the opposition on Friday and Saturday respectively in Providence. On the following Friday, they tangle with the Holy Cross linksters at another neutral battleground--New Haven. The next day Yale and William will oppose the Crimson in a double bill in the morning and afternoon. Next, the boys will be on deck for the New England Intercollegiates at Oakley Country Club...
...Grover Whalen has lost his leanness, but remains in top physical trim. He diets, neither drinks nor smokes, rides a lot. He has a country place at Roslyn, L. I., a town house at 48 Washington Mews-an alley off Fifth Avenue near Washington Square where Manhattan rich used to stable their horses and now like to live themselves...
...shadow of Japanese planes stayed over Mona Gardner on her eleventh-hour reconnaissance of three menaced Eastern empires (French, Dutch and British). Everywhere she found distrust of the Japanese, little evidence of their effective penetration except the inevitable Japanese photographic shop in every strategic railway junction, harbor, mining town...
...pitfall of travel-poster sensationalism which has in many cases been the Waterloo of other painters who have worked from the game point of view. Three paintings by Prescott Jones contain a delicate but virile just position of tones. Great technical facility can be readily seen in his "Indian Town," a fine example of the effect of the wants color medium when used in its proper sphere which is especially appropriate when an effect of many colored variations of light and dark is desired...