Word: bled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students, enraged by his radical opinions, forced his resignation from Hanover Technical College and the Hitler Government confiscated his property. To Marienbad he fled, taking with him as his chief treasure the walking stick of the great philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Last week while the 18th World Zionist Congress squab- bled hoarsely in Prague, someone raised a clumsy fire ladder to the third floor window of Professor Lessing's bedroom. Two men went up the ladder, two pistol bullets cracked through the window pane and into Professor Lessing's head. He died in his wife's arms...
...Socialist. She married a Polish count, bore him two children, took the name of Mrs. Florence Kelley after her divorce. She served four years as Illinois' first factory inspector. She helped to found the National Consumers' League, was its longtime secretary. Because her heart bled for overworked salesgirls, she started the "Shop Early For Christmas" movement in the early 1900's. She heard of a youngster who worked 17 hours a day during the Christmas rush, trotting packages between a store delivery wagon and front doors. One night the boy, too tired to go home, curled...
...would be denied because they had accepted "donations" from hopeful aspirants to the Drake fortune. Oddly enough, 100 letters at once reached the Post Office Department from Northwestern farmers protesting the issuance of the order. The Department calculated that from them and their ilk, $1,300,000 had been bled by Drake racketeers. "There has never been any record," said Solicitor Horace J. Donnelly, turning over his evidence to the Department of Justice, "of any unsettled or undistributed Sir Francis Drake estate...
Unlike sexy Strange Interlude and Mourning Becomes Electra, Emperor Jones contains no love motif. O'Neill's hero was a Negro convict, a one-time Pullman porter, crapshooter, murderer, who escaped to the West Indies, called himself Emperor, bled his native subjects until they turned on him, chased him into the jungle and destroyed him. Two grotesque African gods pillared the stage when the Metropolitan curtain went up last week and an off-stage chorus started shouting "He mus' die." Brasses blared savagely against a rattle of percussives. The first short scene made Metropolitan listeners fear that...
...Being bled of her hydrogen a few days after arriving from Germany, borrowing the Shenandoah's helium supply for her first flights in the U. S. (Because the gas was scarce in those days, the Shenandoah had to stay at home while her new sister went forth...