Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drive an ordinary subway train up to 40 m.p.h. Suddenly the automatic signals went from green to red, the Duke of Kent removed his hand from the "dead man's handle" and the trainload of ordinary passengers, who had no idea who their motorman was, screeched to an abrupt automatic stop...
Another recent drift was Dictator Stalin's abrupt dissolution of the Society of Old Bolsheviks, hitherto Russia's Communist elite. While many a Communist abroad accused Comrade Stalin of selling true Marxism down Russia's rivers. Comrade Leon Trotsky moved last week from France to Norway, thus putting himself nearer to Communist elements in Russia favorable to the overthrow of Stalin. As the world's greatest living Revolutionist, stern Leon Trotsky has paid no attention to Josef Stalin's arrest in Russia last year of the Great Exile's son Sergei Trotsky...
...smiles, lean Sir John clasped hands with portly Baron von Neurath. "Fine of you to have invited me to your home!" he cried, then recoiled as though slapped when a bristling, black-jacketed S. S. (Special Guard) leader stepped directly in his path, blocked the Englishman with an abrupt salute and bawled...
...Woman in Red" marks our abrupt descent to the ridiculous. We try hard to approach Gene Raymond films with objective eye but critical impartiality is impossible where he is concerned especially when the picture is in addition both serious and dull...
...drones and sinecure holders in Vatican City are in for a thoroughgoing shakeup. Under the broad, benign mandate handed him by Pope Pius, Caesar-For-Six-Months Serafini will first proceed to create an Attorney General's office and a Bureau of Accounts-with all that the abrupt creation of those offices implies...