Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile wide, "The Largest Factory of Any Kind in Europe." This plant is not scheduled to turn out cars until winter after next, but when orders were accepted last week, German workers scrambled so eagerly to sign on the dotted lines that in a few hours every KdF order blank in the Reich had been used...
...Paris, alarmed journals of the Left, which had hoped that the Anglo-French solidarity, just bulwarked by the visit of King George & Queen Elizabeth, gave Czechoslovakia a blank check to do as she liked about German demands, clamored that by thrusting in the cushion last week, Perfidious Albion had tricked Prague. There was some truth in this. Britain had seized an opportunity to check any Czech rashness which might precipitate a general European...
...Gustave Rumrich, formerly a sergeant in the U. S. Army, and a plump German fräulein, Johanna Hofmann. Rumrich's blundering offense was describing himself as "Mr. Weston, Under Secretary of State," a nonexistent character, while applying to the U. S. Passport Bureau in Manhattan for 50 blank passports. Fräulein Hofmann, a hairdresser on the German liner Europa, was allegedly his accomplice, in a capacity, for which nature had not fitted her, of lure. On the strength of its coup, the Department of Justice asked for a grand jury investigation. Leading witness...
...dance committee chairmen must now make out a tax exemption blank before each dance and file it with the Department of Internal Revenue. The exemption is granted because any profit made is to be turned over to "an educational institution," namely, Harvard University...
...noon that day, when the blank petition was placed on the Speaker's desk, a swarm of Representatives was already beginning to crowd the well of the House. Jostling each other to get at the fountain pen which Aunt Mary handed to the impatient signers, the House members became so boisterous that the sergeant at arms was called on to exert his authority, marshaled them into a queue which gradually wound half way around the chamber. So many members were in so much of a hurry to put their names on the petition that Speaker Bankhead, after calling hopelessly...