Word: whirlwinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Circus" by Vilmos Novak Aba and the "Whirlwind" by Tibor Polya are both outstanding pictures. The latter is an excellent scene of a village marketplace caught in a whirlwind. The brilliant colored figures run to shelter as the wind catches the canvas roofs of their market-booths...
...Small, dusky-faced, kinky-haired Crown Prince Asfaou-Ouossan, 15, of Abyssinia, with his sister Princess Tananie-Ouorq and entourage of nine, spent a whirlwind week in London before going to Paris in their tour of European capitals. The imperial children, neither of whom speaks English, went to Sandringham to have luncheon with King George & Queen Mary and to deliver the greetings of their father, Emperor Haile Selassie, They took tea with the Archbishop of Canterbury and stopped the show at the Drury Lane where they went to see Noel Coward's Cavalcade. Princess Tananie bought $20,000 worth...
...whirlwind finish marked Senator Hawes's Philippine visit. Having caused a huge parade and at least one riot by his encouragement of Independence (TIME, July 20) he had an opportunity fortnight ago to tell the Manila Rotary Club how he felt about his achievement. Announced he: "I only asked a simple civil question: Whether the Filipinos wanted independence. I did not expect that to create such a disturbance." He lined up Emilio Aguinaldo, oldtime rebel, for immediate freedom, even if the price were civil war. To a joint session of the Legislature he delivered a farewell address in which...
...cities sailed for France. The cities were those which entertained transatlantic Airmen Costes & Bellonte on their cashing-in tour last year (TIME, Sept. 15). The mayors are to be guests of the French Republic, to see the International Colonial & Overseas Exposition in Paris (TIME, May 11) and take a whirlwind junket through France. Entrusted to the mayors by the U. S. exposition committee was a bust of the late Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick, carved from a beam of the original White House, to be placed in the Paris Hotel de Ville...
...clubs (one reputedly the gift of Bobby Jones), several cases of bright green beer (artificially colored, brewed in Edinburgh), H. R. H. Edward of Wales and Prince George flew to Paris, there entrained for Santander, Spain, where they boarded the S. S. Oropesa for Bermuda, first stop before their whirlwind tour of Latin America. Their frank effort: to drum up more trade for British manufacturers...