Word: guardedness
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KINGDOM COMING-Roark Bradford- Harper ($2.50). Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun (from which Marc Connelly shaped his 1930 Pulitzer Prize play, The Green Pastures) effectively pigeonholed Roark Bradford as a writer of humorous Negro dialog. But Author Bradford, not content with his niche, has made manful attempts...
The Austrian guard peered through the gate. A dangerous Nazi the prisoner certainly was. The guard recognized him as Siegfried Kustatcher, who had served a prison sentence only a few weeks before. He opened the gates. The fake Heimwehr men suddenly dropped the handcuffs, snapped out blackjacks and sponges soaked...
In his Palace, despite the menace of the guns, President Machado could not believe that his Army & Navy-well paid while other Cuban Government employes have gone unpaid for months-had turned against him. He ordered his car, ordered War Minister Herrera into it, set off guarded by a machine...
Meanwhile in Havana the Congress, closely guarded by 300 soldiers, had accepted from War Minister Herrera resignations signed by Sr. Machado and other members of his Cabinet which had the effect of making General Herrera for about 30 minutes the Provisional President. Not acceptable to Ambassador Welles or to the...
Meanwhile the A. N. P. A. had incurred the wrath of various publishers by its advice to them fortnight ago to refrain from adopting the President's blanket code. The A. N. P. A.'s reason: newspaper publishing "is not an industry but an enterprise of such peculiar...