Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First of all, that very sentence I praised above, namely "I'd like to show those (censored) truce-breaking truck strikers," lacks an object of any sort: show them what, Freddy? If you mean your new coat, or that cup you won at Camp Oolaloo in the rifle shoot, you should have put that in instead of leaving everybody to guess at it. The sentence, "labor is being babied too much here," is far-fetched and sounds like a description of a maternity ward. Finally, that terrific sentence where you wrote, "If I could get some support...
...Syndicate in Switzerland and International News Service in London came spectacular additions to the story. Dr. Goebbels had been beaten, it was said, within an inch of his life by friends of Actress Baarova's husband. These friends, incensed because the husband had been sent to a concentration camp, had surprised the Propaganda Minister in Lida's rooms, might have killed him had it not been for the intervention of Dr. Goebbels' chauffeur. Frau Goebbels, one of Herr Hitler's more prominent tea-pourers, was supposed to have chuffed off to Copenhagen for the divorce...
...Philadelphia Quakers, little Logan grew up in surroundings at once prosperous and zealously religious. His father was both an executive in the family glass factory, and a famed Quaker revivalist, as successful on manorial lawns in England (until he excited too much ecstasy in female converts) as in suburban camp meetings. His mother, an even more effective stirrer-upper, became known as "the Angel of the Churches...
...over damaged communication systems, children were delighted. In London, for the first time in ten years, there was enough snow for snowballs, and at Versailles there was skating on the Grand Canal. Casualties: 200 dead. Most inexcusable casualty: the freezing to death of ten German-Jewish refugees in a camp on the German-Polish border...
...Italy's anti-Semitic laws, the harrying of Italian Catholic Action groups, the reception Mussolini gave Hitler last May, declared sadly: "We have offered our now old life for the peace and prosperity of peoples. We offer it anew." By spending most of the year in a concentration camp, Protestant Pastor Martin Niemoller gave courageous witness to his faith...