Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flexible Instruments. The German press censor passed cables saying that Nazis in Potempa who took an unresisting Communist from his bed last August and stamped upon him until he died were last week pardoned, set free. Dispatches also passed the censor in which Jews were described as being commonly beaten by Nazis with an instrument consisting of a steel spring tipped by a small lead ball. The effect: maximum flesh bruises without actually breaking a bone...
...take this opportunity of presenting my book "The Angels" to your most enlightened and courageous body, the Harvard University students, on condition that it is read in open caucus and discussed by the said august student body in the following manner...
...Bufano moved to San Francisco, married; had a child, deserted wife & child to study Terra Cotta glazing and firing in China." This is inaccurate. Bufano was not married until 1925, then to Virginia Howard, in Houston, Texas, by whom he had a son, Erskine Scott Wood Bufano, born in August 1928 at Ross, Calif. Mother and son have been residents of Mill Valley, Calif, for several years...
...most eloquent appeal for funds thus far was made last week by Geraldine Farrar. White-haired and chic, she appeared on the Metropolitan stage between acts at Parsifal, so roused the audience that people started to hand checks and dollar bills over the footlights. Next night Mrs. August Belmont spoke and three of her friends (Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, Mrs. Robert Goelet) waved $1,000 checks from the Diamond Horseshoe. Contributions of $10,000, biggest individual ones so far, came from Pierre du Pont and Louis Eckstein who still hopes to be able to give...
...order thus to invade territory which even Japan calls "China" without quibbling would come from the Tokumei Zenken Taishi, the "Emperor's Private Ambassador" in Manchukuo, His Excellency General Nobuyoshi Muto, bland, august and grim. In a most ominous proclamation this week, the Tokumei Zenken Taishi declared: "Should the Chinese undertake operations against our troops [as Chinese had already done] the hostilities may inevitably spread to North China, responsibility for which must be borne by the Chinese authorities...