Word: whats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a citizen of London hears stealthy footsteps in his pantry, finds his drawing room in flames, or stumbles over a body on the stairs, he knows precisely what to do. He picks up the nearest telephone, dials 999, and waits for help to come. For number 999 on London...
Compared with what was coming, the opening shots were almost idyllic. Beside savagely marching, stiffly saluting Nazis, Fascists, Reds, the blotchy, jerky old jingo shots from World War I looked like throw-backs to a simpler, sweeter time. Beside tough Dictators Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, the sword-rattling Kaiser and autocratic...
Though the picture ends with President Roosevelt pleading for peace, peace was the last thing The Fight for Peace encouraged. Audiences tough enough to stick it out until the last bomb-burst were as dazed as some survivors of the air raids they had just seen, or as fighting mad...
To the C. Y. 0. and the U. S., Bishop Sheil said: "What he [Cardinal Mundelein] authorized me to say was controversial-something he would not have wanted to have said for him-except that he felt that others had created a situation which might be mistaken to compromise the...
Yellow-robed Je Chen, Tibet's regent until Tanchu reaches his majority at 18, greeted the reincarnated pontiff with due ceremony. From a golden bowl the regent drew one of numerous bamboo slips which, if a proper choice had been made, would bear the name of the new Dalai...