Word: trippings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Generalissimo Francisco Franco proclaimed over the Burgos radio at 2:20 p. m. on March 29 that the Spanish Civil War had officially ended. His troops had occupied Madrid, Valencia, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Jaén, Albacete-almost without resistance. Italian planes from Majorca had made a last bombing trip over Gandia, British-controlled Mediterranean port. A few anarchist soldiers were still putting up a feeble resistance in isolated districts and clean-up campaigns were bound to continue for some time. But, broadly speaking, Generalissimo Franco was right: the war was over and for the first time in 984 days...
...word Wolfe novelette, The Party at Jack's. This month's American Mercury has Wolfe's Portrait of a Literary Critic, a mock tribute to a corkscrewy reviewer. Next issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review will carry Wolfe's A Western Journey, diary of his trip to the Northwest last summer, taken from pencil notes written at night, or scribbled in an automobile going 60 m.p.h. Current issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review carries a memoir of Thomas Wolfe by Henry T. Volkening, a colleague of his teaching days. Theme of Volkening's recollections -Wolfe...
...politician, he was Republican candidate for President four years too soon. As a general, he prematurely emancipated the slaves in his district. As an explorer, he became such a popular favorite at 29 after his first Western trip, that later and harder journeys were anticlimactic. He raised the U. S. flag in California before the Mexican War broke out. He was born out of wedlock and married in haste. He fell in love with smart, ambitious Jessie Benton, daughter of Missouri's great Senator, but she was only fifteen; he married her secretly two years later, before...
Outclassed by well-conditioned Southern nines, the varsity baseball club on their annual spring trip dropped successive games to North Carolina, duke, and Navy to show only one win, that over the Naval Training Station...
...summer trip would give Irv a good chance to get in shape for the 1940 Olympics, as he expects to wade through all American competition without much difficulty. As a matter of record, however, it appears that strenuous opposition will be provided from little Belgium, because in Gramment at the "Feast of Der Krakclinge" the good burghers have been lapping up 500 live goldfish anually since...