Word: guardedness
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Also in the Bishop's palace are the offices of the general staff. Few headquarters were ever more carefully guarded. Before it every morning is held a ceremonial guard mount. In turn, companies of Regulars, Moors, Carlists, Falangists. Revisionists take this guard, placing sentries at every corner of the...
Ward Road Jail. What claims to be the largest prison in the world, the Ward Road jail, capacity 8,000, stands on the edge of the Japanese part of the International Settlement under crossfire from both sides for over a week. Shells crashed right into the building last week, killed...
On one of the Channel Islands off the coast of England, George Abell, onetime society editor of the Washington Daily News, had been living with his five-year-old son Tyler. He sent the child out for a walk with his nurse. Down from the sky slipped an airplane carrying...
At the edge of a desolate section of fog-ridden moors, the grey, ancient English prison of Bleakmore was almost impregnable, had harbored so many generations of convicts that it smelled "of the primal basic filth of old humanity, of the things forgotten when the oldest cities began." Although fogs...
Also unexpectedly peaceful last week were union activities in Detroit. Recalling the thoroughgoing licking a number of its unionists received at Ford Co.'s River Rouge plant last May when they attempted to distribute leaflets, United Automobile Workers, planning to distribute more literature, last fortnight applied for legal protection...