Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Direct translation of his remarks in German (which were toned down, as customary, in an official English version) read: "That was how you planned it, wasn't it, Mr. Churchill? That was how it was carried out also and then!-then this God-damned American citizen Anderson came along and uncovered your whole scheme...
...sixth of the population of Finland had fled from their homes last week, terrified lest a Russian invasion should follow up the still secret demands of Joseph Stalin. Peasants abandoned their farms along the Soviet frontier, the men joining the Finnish Army, the women and children plodding on foot to refugee camps in the interior. They had to walk because the Army was obliged to seize all horses and carts in the frontier districts for its service of supply. Most of the fleeing refugees left behind all their possessions, except what they could carry in a few bundles, but occasionally...
Today, the might of Scandinavia has sadly withered. But last week powerful searchlights were turned on Stockholm's famed modernistic Town Hall and the massive Royal Palace as over 100,000 took their stand along the twinkling waterways and King Gustaf led his guests, after a State banquet, into the Royal Church. Solemnly the Archbishop of Sweden, Dr. Erling Eidem, prayed that the Scandinavian kings and President Kallio may receive "strength to wage the struggle against the forces of evil presently rampant in the world...
...constitutional monarchy. The Royal House, as lineage goes in Europe, is extremely young. His Majesty is only the great-grandson of its founder Jean Bernadotte, soldier of fortune, the son of a French petit bourgeois of Pau who played his own hand as a soldier-politician until Napoleon came along and outdid him. Alive to the main chance, Bernadotte was glad for a job as one of Napoleon's generals. His military exploits were negligible, but he was a good politician and his wife was the sister of Joseph Bonaparte's wife. With these advantages, the Emperor made...
...devastating the consequences of War II may be for the Nordic States no man can foresee. But with their democratic friends embattled far down the North Sea, and their totalitarian neighbors creeping across and along the Baltic, tears and tennis, trees and testimonials may well be not enough to save them. Against one Adolf Hitler, perhaps not even a Gustavus Adolphus would suffice...