Word: broken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggest a method by which the American people may express their opinion of the present German Government? Why should not committees be formed in towns to make house-to-house collections of objects made in Germany, which might be destroyed in public bonfires? Almost every house contains some broken toy or picture-book, of no great value to the owner, that would serve as a symbol for this purpose. The collections could be made in a few afternoons, at small expense; and the language of bonfires seems to be the only one that Germans at present understand. If these mass...
...merciful Providence may give it that this letter may be taken well by you as a noble and understanding man and bring us rescue from misery and despair," she concludes in her broken English. The letter was postmarked Nov. 11 from Vienna...
...broken Garbo accept, Miss Gulbrandsen, now performing nightly at the Boston Garden, proudly announced, "I knit sweaters and mittens," but did not say whether they were destined for Hanover...
Wired Heads. Persons with broken necks have to keep their heads up so that their fractured vertebrae will grow together in normal alignment. Ordinarily, tight steel collars are used to extend broken necks, but they are uncomfortable, interfere with sleeping, eating, bathing...
Meanwhile Stanford piled up three times their opponents yardage and, by the last period, they had broken down the Dartmouth forward wall and were gaining at will. Easterners had hoped to crack the mythical "bigger and betterness" complex of western gridmen, and now they have got some explaining...