Word: backed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitler would try this summer to steal at least one of their Baltic "windows" and probably the entire Polish coast (see above), the Poles last week showed much the same steadiness and bravery that little Czecho-Slovakia showed last summer before she was forced by her own allies to back down. The Poles' big advantage was that they had lived and learned by the Czechs' experience...
Miss Harriette Mercer, 26, a strapping, dusky laundress, was presented to His Highness at a Harlem reception. It was love at first sight; and the fact that the Prince had some four wives-the limit under Mohammedan law-back in Africa seemed unimportant. Before the Prince returned to Paris, where he is correspondent for Le Senegal, West African weekly, they were engaged to be married. Said the Princess-to-be last week before she sailed to join her fiance: "Every girl dreams of meeting a Prince and marrying him, and it looks like my dream will come true. . . . I really...
...second, Louis, peering down mastiff-like for an opening, let go. Over went Turtle Galento on his back. But he got back on his feet and in the third he even caught the mastiff off balance and rolled him over for a count of one. After that it was like all Louis fights, save the one he lost to Schmeling. He straightened the turtle up and subjected him to a swift and terrible mauling...
After 1:49 sec. of the fourth round, Referee Arthur Donovan untangled Galento from the ropes, awarded a technical knock out to Louis and dragged Galento to his corner. When he came to and had his fat face put back together with 23 stitches, the gallant little tavern-keeper set some kind of world's record by being just as unafraid of Louis as when he went into the ring. He still thought he could beat him. "I just got a little careless," he explained through lacerated lips. "That bum's way overrated. He's not even...
...left his wife in the East, keeps his voting residence in Framingham, Mass. Jimmy how first-names most of Hollywood but respectfully speaks of his employer as Mr. Goldwyn. To an interviewer Cineman Roosevelt recently observed: "I won't say I'm not going to go back into politics, because if I do say so, and then later decide I will go back, people will say I don't know my own mind...