Word: opening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sweden, which used to boss the Baltic and lick the Russians pretty regularly until Napoleon persuaded Denmark and Russia to gang up on her in 1808, joined Finland in mining the Gulf of Bothnia to keep the Red Navy out and Finland's supply lines open. Forty thousand more men were mobilized, bringing Sweden's armed forces to 150,000. The fortress of Boden, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, was reinforced with reserves. Here was the greatest Russian threat to Sweden, marked by the steady progress of a Russian column across Finland toward Tornio...
Fortnight ago this Finnish patriot informed the League of Nations Council that "Good Neighbor" Russia was guilty of having "attacked not only frontier positions, but also open towns of Finland, sowing death and destruction." He asked the League to "take all necessary measures to check the aggression...
...flats deserted by wartime évacués from London, new clubs open almost every night. Sir John keeps an eye on them by means of occasional Scotland Yard "raids." The polite British inspectors merely take down the names of patrons in little notebooks, but do not close the joint. In the House of Commons there is mildly derisive laughter whenever His Majesty's Government is questioned about "blackout morals" and "harpy clubs" by such anxious moralists as Manchester Conservative E. L. Fleming, M. P. "I am worried about wicked women," Mr. Fleming recently observed. "Britain's young...
...Chicago's Walter Jacobs & Albert Weiss: the open pair championship of the American Contract Bridge League, outplaying in other pairs of top-notch players from 21 States, Canada and South America; at Pittsburgh...
...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, a detail which caused a great to-do among anachronism-chasers until they ascertained that glasses were worn in Shakespeare's day. Nobody seemed to care whether they were wtirn in Hamlet...