Word: come
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tiny troop-packed Hungarian village of Debreczen one morning last week the earth quaked, chimneys tumbled, ceilings crumbled, pictures fell. Excited villagers, thinking war had come at last, leaped from their beds and ran down into cellars to avoid bomb splinters. No sooner had they discovered their mistake than Hungary actually was at war. The quake lasted 40 minutes, the war three days. Neither did much damage...
...known more for their resplendent uniforms than for their fighting.* In the long run Rumania's greater resources should tell, but the joker is that Hungary would be backed by the Third Reich. The possibility loomed last week for a few short hours that Soviet Russia might come to Rumania's aid, but the last thing King Carol wants is Soviet soldiers on his soil. He might find it difficult to get them out afterward...
Last week 64-year-old Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, who has often angered strong Imperialists by failing to come out wholeheartedly for war support for Britain, rose in the Ottawa House of Commons to read a speech on foreign policy. He droned along for 15 minutes...
...lingering hope of the dispirited defenders of Madrid was for an honorable, merciful peace. But from General Franco's headquarters in Burgos had come no promise of quarter, only a repeated demand for unconditional surrender-the white flag over Madrid. Then, last Tuesday morning, white flags began to flutter wanly over the ramparts of Madrid, the last symbol of Spanish resistance to the advance of Fascism...
...Saturdays, when more clients come to town, two colored moppets in livery greet them at the front door, usher them into a lobby glad with music and flowers and the trilling of canaries. Christmas and holidays the bank keeps open house, with fruit cake, soft drinks and wine for all comers. Last year the bank gave away 20,000 gladiolus bulbs from its own nursery...