Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early in March, Smigly-Rydz had his political tool, bald-headed Colonel Adam Koc (pronounced kotz) merge the Pilsudski Legionnaires with a few scattered middleclass, youth, workers' groups into a nucleus with the sonorous title "Camp of National Unity." Koc, realizing that "national unity" was an empty formula without support of two large groups-the National Democrats (made up of conservative nationalists) and the peasants- suggested to his political boss that concessions be made to induce one or both groups to join the united front. Price for peasant support was the return of Witos...
...This sort of thing is so hard on the average correspondent's nerves, that he usually sends most of his copy by telegraph, where the censorship is automatic and predictable. A little palm-greasing will sometimes get a dispatch by courier over the border into France, from either camp...
...different from the competent juveniles of Dead End (see p. 61) as rat biscuits are from tea biscuits, the tots of Make A Wish are discovered in a paradisal boys' camp, where Chip (Bobby Breen), although a new boy, becomes an instant favorite with everybody, apparently because of his bugle-like voice. Across the lake from the camp John Selden (Basil Rathbone) is summering, trying to get a start on his new operetta. Chip and Selden strike up a beautiful, laughing friendship, the operetta goes forward by leaps & bounds, and when Chip's mother, Irene (Marion Claire), comes...
...municipal government as assistant corporation counsel, later became Commissioner of Accounts. He first joined the Rockefellers as an investigator of European police systems. In 1916 Newton Diehl Baker sent him to the Mexican border, recalled him after U. S. entry into the World War to take charge of training camp activities. After the Armistice President Wilson appointed him Undersecretary of the League of Nations, a post from which he resigned after the Senate refused to ratify the League Covenant...
Olympic Hurdler Forrest Towns had been doing training camp work there to make up University of Georgia credits he lost last summer when he went to Berlin. A track meet was scheduled for Visitors Day, and Hurdler Towns, a fine all-round athlete, was expected to dominate it.* Admittedly he could beat any man at his specialty. Question was: could he beat a horse? Forthwith he was matched against Tommy Roberts, a prize cavalry horse in the light hunter (jumping) class. U. S. Army qualifications for such a horse : must be sound, five years old, 15 hands high. Distance...