Word: turning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese official vices-have hampered China in waging her war almost as much as lack of guns and ammunition. Japan having seized most of China's coastline and the Chinese having been driven far westward, it was in character that some of China's leaders should turn defeatist and respond to the lure of Japanese offers of position and gold...
...third party France fears most is Britain's Prime Minister, scheduled to pursue "appeasement" to Rome during the second week in January. France fears that II Duce will attempt to turn Mr. Chamberlain's visit into another Munich deal at France's expense. Although Mr. Chamberlain announced as his New Year's resolution that "Great Britain will not make any further concessions to force," many a Frenchman chortled over a disquieting burlesque. Shrewd Henri de Kerillis, independent Rightist Deputy and one of the most influential Rightists opposed to Premier Daladier, wrote for his newspaper...
Then the serpent enters the Garden: the harvesting machine is invented, the rail-road arrives, sinister-looking capitalists in plug hats turn up. Years pass; the farmer prospers, the rascally capitalists wax fat, the nation's fibre is weakened. Then comes 1929: the gorged capitalists expire of a gut-ache, the farmer is ruined and goes back to plowing...
Elsie Janis was back on Broadway for the first time since 1928. After years in retirement, Elsie has not slowed up. With no voice to speak of, she still puts a song across. She can, for the hell of it, still turn a cartwheel or twirl a rope. She screws up her face and becomes Sarah Bernhardt, juggles her voice and becomes Ethel Barrymore. Or she just wanders around the stage dropping patter soft as daisies until bang! something sharp pops...
Crusader. Oscar Riddle was born in Cincinnati, Ind., got his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, after returning from a natural history expedition to South America's Orinoco River, was well on the way to becoming an ichthyologist when a lecture on evolution gave a new turn to his career. He went to the Carnegie Institution's station at Cold Spring Harbor in 1912 as a research associate, and, except for a Wartime sojourn in France, has stayed there ever since...