Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ninety British bombers flew over France in the second "air-raid" training exercises arranged by the British and French Air Ministries. Forty long-range Wellingtons made a 1,500-mile non-stop cruise to and from Marseille, where large crowds gathered in the streets to watch the demonstration. Lighter bombers cruised over Orleans and Paris. Not bashful were the British in pointing out that the Marseille bombers, had they veered slightly to the left, would have been over Turin, Italy's big munitions-manufacturing city, or had they taken a course directly eastward from Britain would have circled over...
...mother who permits her girl to attend such functions should demand ironclad protection. Girls from 15 to 25 were there. We had two in our party. Never would have I permitted either to have gone without constant watch. I knew what they were going to face! What a responsibility! What aches of mind...
...Mussolini posters have appeared (briefly) in Milan and Turin. Viva Hitler legends, painted on all the houses along the railway route taken by the Führer on his trip to Rome last year, have been unanimously painted over. There is a dour expression on Italian faces as they watch the heavy-booted Nazi chiefs who now are seen all over the Italian landscape. Crown Prince Umberto, supposed to be antiFascist, is greeted tumultuously whenever he appears...
...graceful competitive pastime which was once regarded as about as unsalable as china painting. In championship competition, figure skaters are called on to do about seven out of about 41 compulsory school figures. Although many of these figures are inordinately difficult to learn, most are very dull to watch. The second half of a figure-skating contest is free skating, where invention counts as well as execution. Theoretically unlimited, in practice most free-skating repertories, including Sonja Henie's, are limited by the fact that competitive figure skaters ordinarily perfect no more feats than they need...
...John Garfield's bitter suicide and Gale Page and the Lane sisters (Priscilla, Rosemary & Lola) winding up behind various eight-balls, may expect quite a turn from this cinema. Daughters Courageous racks the whole bunch up again for a new break-less bruising, less startling, more fun to watch...