Word: commandeering
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...South, Mussolini's Somaliland army, creeping north under command of Italy's ablest colonial fighter, lean General Graziani, was fighting harder and making more progress. Roads meant nothing in this rolling desert country where the advance was from water hole to water hole. Each hole was held by a little group of fanatical natives ready to charge and die at the first bang of a gun. It was slow and bloody business. General Graziani finally called out his bombing planes. Soon it was reported that the Italians were using a new, yellowish gas on the terrified Ethiopians...
...play Porgy left impressions which presented a stiff challenge for a Broadway-bred composer. With music frequently inspired, Mr. Gershwin manages to give new life and importance to the Negroes of Catfish Row. Conductor Alexander Smallens raises his baton and an overture sounds out like a brisk command for attention. It is Saturday night in Charleston. A shrill trumpet sets the pitch. A peppery xylophone suggests the dice, rolling to trouble...
Most of them were newspaper career-men, highly competent, bent solely on getting the news, getting it right, getting it first. Also conspicuously on hand was an aggregation of what newspapermen call Trained Seals-cityroom slang for big-time correspondents who command huge salaries, get their names in headlines, seek color rather than fact...
...produced in Paris, Vienna, London, Rome, Berlin (by Max Reinhardt) and by numerous amateur and stock companies in the U. S. Consistently boisterous and occasionally funny, it is supposed to show that Russians can laugh at the pomposities of Communist doctrine under the tolerant eye of the Soviet high command, which knows a good safety-valve when it sees...
...town Michigan newspaper publisher, he was shipped off to a Wyoming ranch as a boy to punch cattle and fight Indians. Later he was a newshawk, throwing up his job to join Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. While the Show was in Britain he rode in a command performance for Queen Victoria. After another turn at newspaper work, which landed him at the managing editor's desk of an old Detroit daily, his eyes failed him, and he sadly set up a shipping office in Duluth. Today he owns the Tomlinson fleet of 15 Great Lakes steamers...