Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once King but now only a Duke turned major general, was somewhere in France. Not everyone knew that his younger brother, Prince Henry, 39, Duke of Gloucester, is chief liaison officer of the B. E. F., with a major general's rank. Correspondent Angly was standing on a corner with his officer guide when up whirled an official car driven by an officer, with the chauffeur on the back seat. To Mr. Angly's glad amazement, the driver was the Duke, an old friend of his guide. "They chatted a while and even swapped limericks...
After a 600-mile ride by truck from Warsaw to the southeasternmost corner of what was Poland and after surviving a German bombing raid there; after traveling by specially chartered Rumanian train to the Black Sea port of Constantsa, and after evading a German order for internment there; after aimlessly riding the eastern Mediterranean in a Turkish boat for a week; after a brief stop in Syria; after traveling to France on a French naval vessel-after these weary wanderings a symbol arrived in Paris last week. It was solid and rare-gold in bars to the value...
...England reflected the Senate cloakroom bitterness; finally Nevada's Key Pittman exploded: "Colonel Lindbergh's statement . . . encourages the ideology of the totalitarian governments and is subject to the construction that he approves of their brutal conquest of democratic countries through war. . . ." Messrs. Hoover & Lindbergh retired to their corner, without seconds...
...does his work in a one-room studio that overlooks Boston Common and the Charles River. In one corner is a Dartmouth pennant, facing it the pennant of his Texas prep school. On the floor is a rug woven for Bill, with a facsimile of his signature sprawled across one end, an image of a long-horn Texas steer at the other...
Johnny Felmeth, Sophomore star, led the Lowell House team to a 2 to 0 victory ever Leverett. The score came in the second quarter when the Bunnies tried two running plays with the ball on their own one foot line, where Felmeth had placed it with a coflin-corner kick. On the second down, the entire Lowell line broke through and downed the runner behind his own goal for the second safety...