Word: adrian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Munich's Gauleiter, Herr Giesler, put his spies to work and arrested three "ringleaders," Hans and Maria Scholl and Adrian Probst. They were described as typische Einzelganger (typical individual cranks), tried before a Nazi People's Court, found guilty of spreading defeatism and "encouraging sabotage in our armaments by means of leaflets...
This year, after a 20-year separation, Sir Thomas divorced his first wife, the former Utica Welles (New York-born descendant of Connecticut's fourth Governor Thomas Welles). They have two sons, Adrian, 38, and Thomas, 33, both at present with the British Armed Forces. Sir Thomas has five elderly sisters, whom he describes as "very agreeable creatures," all living in England and married to "husbands who all do exactly what they want them to do-I don't know whether it's a family attribute, or just luck...
...week after Queen Wilhelmina went on record for a free Netherlands Commonwealth, to be democratically governed by all its people (TIME, Dec. 14), Adolf Hitler appointed Dutch Nazi Leader Anton Adrian Mussert "Leader of The Netherlands people...
Barney Darnton did not cover World War I because he fought it in France with the A.E.F.'s Red Arrow Division-at the battles of the Oise-Aisne, the Meuse-Argonne, and the attack on the Kriemhilde-Stellung Line. A native of Adrian, Mich., Barney Darnton started his press career on the Sandusky (Mich.) Herald a few years after the Armistice, progressed through the Baltimore Sun, the Philadelphia Bulletin and Ledger, and the New York Post, to city editor of the A.P.'s New York Bureau. He was already a corking good newspaperman when he went to work...
...affectionately call "Four-Thirty a.m." Pale grey-green in color, it has a cap to match with a tricky brim which can be worn in a number of ways. The brim has stitching which goes around and around and around. What a great delight it would be to have Adrian model it for us some...