Word: avatar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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France and Britain were invited by the Dictator to renounce: "the illusion of Disarmament"; "the illusion of Collective Security"; "the illusion of Indivisible Peace"; "the absurdity of Juridical Parity among all States"; and therefore to renounce as the avatar of all these the League of Nations "and the lies that still constitute relics of the great shipwreck of Wilsonian ideology." The entire speech was of such extreme compression and explosive candor that Il Duce could be said to have stated the quintessence of Fascism in just about 14 minutes...
...trials. There were half a dozen Class M sloops-Walter Keith Shaw's Andiamo, sluggish in races the week before the cruise till her captain removed from her keel 100 ft. of lobster line and two lobster pots; Harold Vanderbilt's Prestige, Floyd Leslie Carlisle's Avatar, and Commodore of the New York Yacht Club Winthrop Williams Aldrich's Valiant, all with shiny new duralumin masts; and Chandler Hovey's wooden-masted Istalena.* There were four 40-footers, five 10-metre boats, two Seawanhaka schooners, and six schooners in a special cruising class never before...
Most people think of the Third or Communist International as the avatar of wickedness, an octopus projecting its tentacles from Russia into the politics of other countries (TIME, Feb. 3). Wrathfully last week reactionary Paris news organs reminded the world that there is also a Second or Socialist International of which a leading member is James Ramsay MacDonald...
...blooded folk who live outside of Spain were thrilled to the marrow by a lengthy and ornate oration, the text of which had been smuggled past Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera's censors and frontier guards at risk of life and limb. These smuggled words are the very avatar of Spanish honor. They are the stenographic minutes of the successful but mercilessly suppressed plea which Don José Sanchez Guerra, four times Prime Minister of Spain, made to a court martial in Valencia, before whom he stood accused of High Treason (TIME, Dec. 9). The 70-year-old rebel...