Word: triede
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Catalan front in Aragon became scandalously inactive. So conspicuous was Barcelona's failure to wage effective warfare against the Fascists, either industrially or militarily, that a favorite, bitter Loyalist quip was that Catalonia, alone of 27 European nations, had lived faithfully up to the non-intervention agreement not...
Meanwhile, Dr. Schuschnigg remained locked up in an attic room under the eaves of Vienna's Hotel Metropole, headquarters of the Gestapo in Vienna. The correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post last fortnight reported it was practically certain that Dr. Schuschnigg would not be tried, more likely...
In the dead eddy of time after the War, a young Dutch ex-divinity student and soldier named Pieter Antonie Laurusse van Paassen found himself in Canada bouncing from job to job. He wrapped department store parcels, peddled magazines, delivered milk, fired locomotives, collected streetcar fares, worked on a blasting...
Seven years ago, Beniamino Gigli, the tops in Italian tenors, left Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in a huff over a salary cut. Deploring his attitude (his pay was rumored to be almost $3,000 a performance), the Met's managers tried many substitutes but found nobody who...
No park at all, Aquatic Park is essentially a glorified bathing place on a more modest scale than Long Island's colossal Jones Beach. Its main pavilion is designed on the lines of a neat white ocean liner-an idea carried out with more zip if less simplicity than...