Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the same soldier, a strapping Negro, stood, solemn-faced, before a court-martial of seven U.S. Army officers. Before the same court-martial had appeared the Bath lorry driver's wife. She said that the Negro had knocked and asked for directions to Bristol. She said that she walked down the road with him to show him the way. She said that he threatened her with a knife, lifted her over a wall and raped...
Interim Threats. Meanwhile the Nazis-were busy announcing to the world that Portsmouth, Plymouth, Bristol and the Port of London were "bristling-positively crammed to the bursting point-with all manner of invasion equipment." The German radio also threatened to bomb all these concentrations into oblivion...
...ones, he constructed a 300-ft. railway, mounted props on flatcars, learned which kinds had the greatest pull. His neighbors thought him mad. The upshot: patents on an electric controllable-pitch propeller, for which he draws royalties from such war-busy plants as Curtiss-Wright and Britain's Bristol Aeroplane...
...ring & Goebbels made a drive for scarce metals, confiscated door handles, hinges, lamps and name plates, made of copper, nickel, bronze, tin and lead, exempted all busts of Hitler, Göring & Goebbels. Last Feb. 15 Joseph Goebbels invited his guests to dine at Berlin's Hotel Bristol. That night the British came, uninvited. A blockbuster crashed square on the hotel. Days later, hundreds of dead had been dug from the ruins. Joseph Goebbels was not among them-he had left on the dead run when the alarm first sounded...
...neat as a championship billiard game. The City Center's Martha, a bid to the Broadway trade, looked and sounded more like musical comedy than opera. So did its star: dark-haired, convent-bred Ethel Barrymore Colt (daughter of Actress Ethel Barrymore and the late Russell Colt of Bristol, R.I.), who had arrived at opera after a fling at Broadway drama (L'Aiglon, Cradle Song) and the nightclub circuit (Spivy's Roof...