Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hall devoted to "Insults to the Honor of German War Heroes" were several etchings by Draughtsman Otto Dix, who ranks with Grosz for his skilled and brutal memories of trench fighting (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934). Another section oddly entitled "The Mocking of Christianity" displayed Emil Nolde's Christ and the Thieves which the National Gallery in Berlin bought for $10,000 in 1930. There were also "A Peasant Scene from a Jewish Point of View," "The Manifestation of the Soul of the Jewish Race" and a group called "The Derision of the German Women." But the greater part...
...Scout Masters. Busses hustled them out to the river front parks where cooking, dining, administration tents and innumerable little wooden comfort stations had already been erected. The arrivals scattered over 350 acres, erected bright-colored tents for themselves, pounded tent pegs and fingers. At 8:45 next morning a trench mortar boomed and 25,000 Boy Scouts stood at attention. It boomed again and the flags of 52 nations rose in an avenue of flags beneath the Washington Monument. It boomed a third time, up went 1,634 flags to 1,634 mastheads throughout the encampment. The ten-day Jamboree...
...screen or on the printed page, the trench scenes from Erich Maria Remarque's book brutally picture the universal bewilderment at the War's end. Author Remarque describes his soldiers' return to their humdrum homes as a tragic surprise they cannot comprehend. Director James Whale, who adds in the film the signing of the Armistice in Marshal Foch's railway car, visions their homecoming as both tragic and comic...
Playing for the Crimson will be: Peter H. Knapp, George Clowes, Edward F. Whitney, Henry Miller, Archer Trench, Thomas Gephart, Austin Scott, Ronald Williams, Samuel Cockins, Captain Hayden Channing, Henry Kidder, William Waters, James A. Field, William J. Watt and Gavin Hadden...
...lineup will be--forwards, Knapp, Clowes, Whitney, Scott, Gephart, Trench, Harkness, and Williams; scrum half, Cockins; stand off half, Channing; inside three quarters, Waldinger, and Desmond; wing three quarters, Watt, and Simpson; fullback, Waters...