Word: afternoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shoes. Now into action came three Isolationists by inheritance, standing in the shoes of Isolationist Fathers: La Follette, Clark and Lodge. Day after day the Isolationists took the floor to bellow steadily all afternoon. The galleries were more than half empty; the press doodled or played word-puzzles in the press gallery. Shockproof to the familiar roar of the Isolationists' big guns, the reporters sat up and took notice only when two new cannoneers appeared: homespun, silent William John Bulow of South Dakota, glib, emotional Dennis Chavez of New Mexico...
...report was a shameless, frivolous trick of the British Ministry of lies and the British Secret Service," cracked the Chancellery's angry denial, which all Berlin afternoon papers repeated under big black headlines. "It was intended only to plunge the peoples of the world into anxiety, as everyone will immediately realize, so that the campaign of lies of the English warmongers would find it easier to accomplish its dark plans." This plunged Germans into visible gloom, some weeping openly in the streets of Berlin. Thus in no uncertain fashion did the anti-Nazi Freedom Station show Adolf Hitler...
...Biggest air attack so far came last week. Late one rainy afternoon, a British naval squadron ran across two or three German vessels "southwest of Norway." They gave pursuit, and chased the German ships all night. Next day a force of German bombers appeared and attacked, echelon after echelon. Germans later claimed ten direct hits, six with heavy bombs, four with medium. The British reported that one shot came close enough to splatter splinters on a cruiser. Two German planes, either crippled or lost, made forced landings in Danish territory, one went down off the Danish coast...
Playing a more aggressive game than at any previous time in the year despite the loss of Captain Howie Mendel, the Varsity soccer team trounced a weak M.I.T. outfit 2 to 0 Saturday afternoon...
Winthrop's Puritan football team lifted itself into a tie with Dudley for first place in the House League by smashing Dunster 12 to 2 yesterday afternoon. Lowell, at the same time, was handing 5-2 to 0 defeat to Leverett while Dudley's powerhouse. In a practice game, smashed the Dormitory team by a 25 to 0 score...