Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that German troops might be sent into Austria, pledges Germany not to interfere directly in Austrian politics; envisions amnesty for Nazis now in Austrian jails (excepting Nazi terrorists sentenced for such crimes as murder); and, most important, is to restore normal economic intercourse between Austria, whose industries are flat broke, and Germany, who would like to have them get busy making munitions for the frantically rearming Fatherland...
...wonderful mother for some man, to save myself from being an old maid. My mother was called by G. H. Q. very suddenly. Without asking for it, I was given the knowledge, as mother was leaving, that where there is real devotion there is no parting. While others broke down, I was the only one capable of handling all details of what I called mother's 'going-away party...
...around Britain's most potent dreadnoughts, obviously able to dash in for quick, close, suicidal work with torpedoes had Il Duce so ordered. Last week His Majesty, arriving at Portsmouth Naval Base in the gorgeous uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, was mobbed by sailors' girls who broke through police lines and jumped on the running boards of his car cheering in the rain. Putting on an oilskin over his uniform and tossing the white-feathered cocked hat of the Admiral of the Fleet into a corner of the cabin in Flea Boat No. 1, His Majesty...
Years later when Colonel John ("Little Moltke") Metaxas was the chief military adviser and friend of King Constantine of Greece, he convinced His Majesty that Germany would win the War which broke in 1914. When Constantine abdicated and Greece joined the Allies, Metaxas fled to Corsica...
...about Southern conventions. He said the Yanks would win the War because they had all the factories and because the immigrants were pouring into the North. He was self-seeking and rude on principle in his recoil from the affected gallantry he saw all around him. When the War broke he became a blockade runner and made money with his unpatriotic speculations. But Scarlett married Melanie's brother for spite, was a widow two months later, moved to Atlanta to be with Melanie, who had married the man they both loved...