Word: overnight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago last September the Federal Theatre poured old wine into a new bottle and got the whole town tipsy. Their Mikado, with an all-Negro cast, a South Sea Island setting and swing interpolations, became a smash hit overnight, in five months broke all Federal Theatre records by playing to 250,000 people and clearing...
...Corridor thus became one of the most Polish parts of the country and Germany was robbed of any issue of "self-determination of peoples" there. Last autumn, when Germany rounded up 20,000 Polish Jews and sent them on their way back to Poland, tough and oligarchic Poland retaliated overnight by rounding up a few thousand Germans. Nazi Germany promptly "mediated" the differences. Not only does Poland run its show at home with brutal efficiency, but it has an Army that would fight at the drop of a hat, and that gives Germany something else to think about. The Polish...
...Overnight a Japanese expeditionary force which had sailed down the China sea landed on and occupied, in spite of a 32-year-old treaty with France and in the teeth of warnings received last year from France and Britain, this fertile and strategic patch of about 13,500 square miles. Once more the Anti-Comintern bloc was up to its clever trick of kicking the democracies in the pants when they were worried about troubles elsewhere. The Japanese war office hissed assurances that the Hainan occupation was purely a military operation to keep the Chinese from shipping arms to South...
...communications cut, its food supplies, gone, its ammunition exhausted, the Loyalist Army disintegrated almost overnight into a disorganized rabble. As the Rebels pressed relentlessly on, a wild churning wave of soldiers and civilians, rushing for the border, rolled before them. Veterans of Belchite, Teruel, the Ebro campaigns carried their rifles, hauled machine guns and field pieces, even drove tanks up to the frontier, where they were confiscated. They were determined not to let General Franco capture any war weapons. At one point alone 4,000 were crossing the French border every hour. At another point a Loyalist Army band played...
...Eamon de Valera, Prime Minister of Eire, accepted an invitation to be an overnight guest, May 7, at the White House. Object of trip: world's fairs...