Word: untilled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"When my men discover the approach of a patrol party, they withhold action until they hear the marauders encounter our barbed-wire entanglements running down the slopes on all sides."
For six centuries Russia tried and spectacularly failed to conquer Finland before Alexander I won it from Sweden in 1808-09. Alexander had two big advantages: 1) he made a deal with the Swedish gentry in Finland promising them self-government; 2) he waited until February to begin his invasion...
His Majesty crossed the rainswept Channel on the bridge of a destroyer, with destroyer and airplane escort, but care was taken that Lord Haw-Haw (Germany's super-accented radio propagandist who kids the English in English) and other Nazis should not know he had gone until after he...
"Jack be nimble, Jack be quick; Jack jump over this here stick!" shouted the drunken father, who had sold the family Furniture to buy liquor. While mother and sister wept to see such sport, the tearful little sprout jumped over a broom handle, again & again until he fell exhausted. The...
The Shakespeare open season for 1939-40 started last week* when Maurice Evans reopened on Broadway in his last season's hit, an uncut Hamlet. It proved once again a much more tumultuous and exciting play than the usual cut version. Interesting minor change: This season Polonius wears spectacles...