Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though the British mandated Kingdom of Irak has been promised complete independence in 1932, in the event of her scheduled admission to the League of Nations in that year. British interests will continue, under concessions, to develop Mosul's major oil fields to control dependent airports-a vital point in the British-India Airway...
...Tanganyika, where 5,800 Europeans, some 350 of them German colonists, rule over nearly five million blacks, British prestige is a vital thing. Two days later, to offset the Karlsruhe's parade, H. M. S. Enterprise, anchored in Tanga harbor, emptied every man jack ashore to parade through the town with fixed bayonets while a seaplane whirred overhead...
...Vital, active, with iron-grey, curly, bobbed hair, Mrs. Hitchcock wears riding boots and breeches through most summer days. At 65 she still talks in the soft New Orleans drawl of her girlhood. She and her husband and son are thorough refutations of the tradition that polo, game of the rich, is controlled by snobs. The Hitchcock influence is largely responsible for the new feeling that real polo talent from anywhere in the land is welcome on Long Island to help defend the Cup. At least one Californian seems sure to be on the team this year, for the first...
...Siberian Taiga (Amkino). Because its scene is one of the world's wildest frontiers and its direction straightforward and vital in the Russian manner, this ought to be important. It fails because, as usual, the makers have loaded on a dismal weight of propaganda. Hero is Kevebel Kima, a long haired, slant-eyed native of that swamp- land past the Siberian frontiers called Taiga. The theme is the conflict between the native's devotion to his tribal law, which stipulates that possession is a sacred right of the possessor, and the Soviet dicta that possession is the right...
Tardieu v. Blum. Amid the good and ill-natured hubbub, henchmen of Prime Minister Andre Tardieu adroitly slipped through bill after vital bill. When he refused to allow further debate on several measures, Socialist Blum taunted...